Guys, Roger has asked for OS-9 programmers to get OS-9 games running over the CoCoNet system. I’ve just put together a disk for The Interbank Incident which can be mounted on a PC using the CoCoNet server and played on a Coco3 via an RS-232 pak and the CoCoNet ROM.
Roger will be testing the disk on his system. If all goes well, you might even be able to call up the game and play it over the internet.
Let’s see some support for Roger’s excellent product by making more game disks!
This post was submitted by Robert Gault.
On the CoCo w/CoCoNet ROM:
DRIVE 0,@”http://www.coco3.com/ibi.dsk”
DOS
Robert, can you resend the CoCoNet-6551 bootable copy of Interbank?
I entered the commands as written,
and got the return code:
*0 CNET-SIO
The DOS, but got nothing but the OK prompt.
Should I do something next. Or did I do something wrong? (I got the same reaction on the Coco 2 after trying this on the Coco 3.
Sorry, there was a typo in my first response. The ! character means to use the bitbanger port. The @ character means to use an RS-232 Pak or Wireless Pak.
Try this:
DRIVE 0,@”http://www.coco3.com/ibi.dsk”
DOS
Look in the GAMES Downloads section for any new CoCoNet-6551 game disks that might appear over time. The conversions of all these OS-9 disks to the CoCoNet suite is taking some time but eventually every OS-9 game/app disk can be run over the RS-232 Pak or bitbanger links if you have the CoCoNet ROM.
Thanks to Robert Gault, most of these OS-9 disks are now bootable from the Drive Pak as well. Talk about Luxury!!