[Coco] CoCoSDC Saving Kings Quest Progress to disk.

[Barry Nelson]

> Travis Poppe travispoppe at gmail.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20CoCoSDC%20Saving%20Kings%20Quest%20Progress%20to%20disk.&In-Reply-To=%3C20170528182737.GB1431%40lickwid.net%3E>
> Sun May 28 14:27:37 EDT 2017
> 
> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 08:41:48AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote:
> > Hi All, 
> > 
> > I’m very new to the great SDC and barely remember anything about OS9.
> > I’m in the process of re-learning.
> > 
> > But for the interim, I got both my 16 and 13 year olds excited about
> > playing KQI. It’s very easy to die, so I want to save the progress.
> > When I attempt to do so, it complains the disk is full.
> > 
> > Is it possible to create another SDC image and mount it from within
> > NitrOs9? I’ve searched google and I know some patches have been made
> > to support the SDC on NitrOs9, but not sure if this is available to
> > these KQI images… If not, is there other way to save the progress? I
> > don’t have an MPI.
> 
> A possible workaround is to download Barry Nelson's NitrOS9 virtual hard
> drive and run King's Quest from it instead. A bit overkill, but it ought
> to have free disk space:
> 
> https://europa.lickwid.net/cocosdc/ULTIMSDC-2017-01-16/VHD/NO6809BN.VHD.gz <https://europa.lickwid.net/cocosdc/ULTIMSDC-2017-01-16/VHD/NO6809BN.VHD.gz>
> 
> This will need to be uncompressed with a utility like 7-Zip.
> 
> Unfortunately I am not sure how to properly launch the game from the VHD
> image. Perhaps Barry could weigh in on that? Entering the full path to
> the game (/dd/games/kq1/cmds/sierra) doesn't seem to work. 
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Travis Poppe
> IRC: tlp on irc.freenode.net

chd /dd/games/kq1
chx /dd/games/kq1/cmds
sierra

Most of the other games will run the same way.

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