Re: SEGA's arcade rendition of CHOPLIFTER my favorite 8-bit game as of late

[Larry Stedman <stedman@binghamton.edu>]

Michael, sorry for giving a misimpression.  I'm running it from 5.25" 
diskettes.  I have an external 5.25" diskette hooked up to the //c+.   I 
can try, however, moving it to a 3.5" and booting from the internal 
drive... hmm... maybe that's it, it wants to be in the first drive slot. 
??

I also found two other diskette images on line so I'll try those, too.  
Maybe a slightly different version is floating around... 

Plus the diskettes I'm using have their own mini-boot programs, so it 
could be that if I booted up in ProDos and then ran Choplifter, it would 
work!  These are all  ideas that hadn't occurred to me until your post, 
so I appreciate your reply!

The IIe it works on is an enhanced.  I haven't tried it on a regular 
IIe, but I do have one of those, too.

I
> I never used the 3.5" disk version of Choplifter--it could be a copy
> protection problem.
> 
> But there are several deprotected versions of Choplifter, and all you'd
> need to do is copy the file onto a 3.5" disk to run it.  That might
> bypass the problem you're experiencing.
> 
> If it doesn't, then you may have found some dependency of Choplifter
> on some undefined system characteristic.  Are the //e's the disks
> work on 6502- or 65C02-based?
> 
> -michael
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