ASTRO FORTUNE TELLER

[Mr SQL]

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

[Briza1]

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

 

[Michael Kline]

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 "[email protected]" command to switch from SDC-DOS to DECB solves this problem

[rietveld]

Thank You

 

[Mr SQL]

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 "[email protected]" 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.

 

[Michael Kline]

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 "[email protected]#" (# from 0 to 7) allows the user to switch banks and reboot. Using [email protected], switches and boots Bank 1, which just contains DECB. Just make sure that the desired disk(s) are mounted prior to shifting.