Mr SQL Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 The Astro Fortune Teller is a fun party game for the Color Computer featured at Rainbowfest 87 and advertised in Rainbow Magazine. I finally got the copy protection off, hope everyone enjoys the game! RUN"ASTRO.BIN" If you don't have the real hardware or an emulator you can use the online CoCo emulator Mocha to play http://www.haplessgenius.com/mocha/ Simply mount the image disc as the local file then type the command above. Remember to follow the rules ASTROFTR.DSK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briza1 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 8 minutes ago, Mr SQL said: The Astro Fortune Teller is a fun party game for the Color Computer featured at Rainbowfest 87 and advertised in Rainbow Magazine. I finally got the copy protection off, hope everyone enjoys the game! RUN"ASTRO.BIN" If you don't have the real hardware or an emulator you can use the online CoCo emulator Mocha to play http://www.haplessgenius.com/mocha/ Simply mount the image disc as the local file then type the command above. Remember to follow the rules ASTROFTR.DSK 180 kB · 1 download Gidday Mate Nice just loaded it up and ran it. Nice well done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Kline Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Thanks! It looks pretty cool. I renamed .BIN extension to .BAS. I did notice that I got I/O errors when it accessed the data files on my SDC. Using the "RUN@1" command to switch from SDC-DOS to DECB solves this problem 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Thank You 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 On 4/23/2020 at 8:27 AM, Michael Kline said: Thanks! It looks pretty cool. I renamed .BIN extension to .BAS. I did notice that I got I/O errors when it accessed the data files on my SDC. Using the "RUN@1" command to switch from SDC-DOS to DECB solves this problem That's very interesting, the disk image is full of tables that get accessed by the program; it sounds like SDC-DOS has an error not present in the original DECB ROM. Very cool the cart has the ability to switch to DECB for full compatiblity to play the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Kline Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 The I/O error pops up after first running the programme and accessing one of the data files. So, there must be a routine within the programme that is not compatible with SDC-DOS. The cool part of the SDC, is that it has 128K of Flash memory on board, split into 8 banks. Bank 0 has the SDC-DOS, and Bank 1 has DECB. The rest of the available banks are available for user's use. If I understand correctly, DECB is linked to SDC-DOS in normal operation. However, there are a few programmes that conflict with SDC-DOS. When this happens, the "RUN@#" (# from 0 to 7) allows the user to switch banks and reboot. Using RUN@1, switches and boots Bank 1, which just contains DECB. Just make sure that the desired disk(s) are mounted prior to shifting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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