[Coco] CoCoSDC Saving Kings Quest Progress to disk.

[Alexander Wallace]

Thank you for sharing this!

> On May 29, 2017, at 10:33 PM, Guillaume Major <guillaume.major at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm using Toolshed os9 format command line utility to create the disk image and imgtool.exe from the MAME/MESS project to copy files. Apparently imgtool doesn't like non full sized images created by os9 format. Modifying the script to include the -e option to create a full sized image fixed the problem.
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> "Alexander Wallace" <alexander.o.wallace at gmail.com> wrote in message news:96A65511-4D2C-4474-8BF8-8499ADC6B5CD at gmail.com...
>> I downloaded the games and was able to save, thanks for fixing them.
>> 
>> May I ask what was wrong? I’m totally new to the SDC and I’m curious what it was and what you did to fix them. My simplistic mind says that maybe you created bigger disks, but it may be more complex.
>> 
>> Thanks again!
>> 
>>> On May 28, 2017, at 8:52 PM, Guillaume Major <guillaume.major at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>> 
>>> There was a problem with the Coco SDC version of most of the Sierra games in the archive. They have been fixed now and ready to be downloaded:
>>> 
>>> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com
>>> 
>>> Enjoy!
>>> 
>>> Guillaume
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "Alexander Wallace" <alexander.o.wallace at gmail.com> wrote in message news:8A817875-75D5-4C81-9304-E2A184C3EF61 at gmail.com...
>>>> I’ll give that a try, maybe changing the current command folder to king’s quest would do the trick.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the reply! I’ll let you know what I figure out.
>>>> 
>>>> It would surely be cool if one could mount several SDC disks in NitrOS9 though…
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again!
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 28, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Travis Poppe <travispoppe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
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