Re: Old kid's graphics game - create a monster (?)

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Jan 17, 9:24 pm, za <zainana...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 17, 7:46 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
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> > On Jan 17, 7:43 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
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> > > On Jan 17, 6:10 pm, za <zainana...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Jan 17, 3:58 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > > > > za wrote:
> > > > > > On Jan 17, 1:59 pm, Tempest <temp...@atariprotos.com> wrote:
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> > > > > >>Ok I got the disks transferred.  I'll send them out to you.
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> > > > > > Hey Tempest.  First off, thank you SO much for this!  Unfortunately,
> > > > > > using AppleWin (my go-to emulator), the first disk wouldn't boot.  I
> > > > > > took a screenshot, which you can see below:
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> > > > > >http://img814.imageshack.us/i/disk1q.jpg/
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> > > > > > The text was just "90C8   A=08 X=60 Y=08 P=34 S=E6"
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> > > > > > Second disk just told me it's not a bootable disk, which was to be
> > > > > > expected.
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> > > > > > Anyone have any ideas?
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> > > > > My first guess on a disk image is sector order.  Try renaming it
> > > > > to xxx.po and see if that works.  (I assume AppleWin determines
> > > > > sector order from type suffix...)
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> > > > > Or if it's already .po, try .dsk.
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> > > > > -michael
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> > > > > NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
> > > > > Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
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> > > > > "The wastebasket is our most important design
> > > > > tool--and it's seriously underused."
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> > > > Hey guys, here are the two versions we've tried:
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> > > >http://www.box.net/shared/7qeccf06sj
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> > > >http://www.box.net/shared/hdahd6fetr
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> > > > Any help would be much appreciated!
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> > > I replaced the DOS
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> > Sorry, fat fingers.  I replaced the DOS on disk 1 and it ran when I
> > booted, then ran 'HI' again.  My procedure:
> > 1. Start up CiderPress
> > 2. Create a new DOS 3.3 disk
> > 3. Start another CiderPress, load up MMB Side 1
> > 4. Copy all files form MMB Side 1 (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C)
> > 5. Paste into the new image (Ctrl-V)
> > 6. Boot the new disk, and it complains "File not found"
> > 7. RUN HI and it works.
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> schmidt, if I understand you correctly and you've managed to make
> working .dsk files, could I get you to send them to me at zainanak80
> (at) hotmail ?
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> Thanks so much!

Sent.  Just figured out... if you LOAD HI and then SAVE HELLO, side 1
will boot directly into the game.