Welp, pick up two new CD-i titles today. Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam, and
Dragons lair II: Timewarp. Both are excellent.

Mutant Rampage is a fast paced, knock ‘em, sock ‘em, beat the heck outa
the Mutant bad guys game… It has 4 levels, the first 3 have 3 different
scenes (citys), the last just one (New York, the roughest/tuffest place in the
world). This is a real action game! and quite challengeing. The graphics are
supurb, along with the background music and sound effects. This is by far
my favorate game so far, really gets the heart pumping!

Dragons Lair II, is, of course the sequeal to the famous Dragons Lair
game. I haven’t played it in depth yet, but it definately starts out much
harder then the original. Once again the graphics/sound and action are great.

I noticed several more new titles in the local Best Buy(s) this weekend. They
must have finally got their XMas releases in… Hall of Fame Football,
Earth Control (or something like that) and one other game struck my interest
but I didn’t want to drop too much $$$ all at once… And I saw Dances With
Wolves there too, which I definately will get next time I have a chance
and some extra $$$… Looks like there will be lots of good stocking
stuffers for poeple with CD-i players!
–
Paul Jerkatis – SandV BBS (708)352-0948: OS-9 Support
UUCP: amiserv.xnet.com!vpnet!sandv!mithelen …or… mithelen@sandv.chi.il.us
Internet: MITHELEN@Delphi.com

Dave,

> My brother and I are stumped on what move to make before Dexter jumps
> int the red melting beam in the space station…

To get by this, when you first walk in, you jump to the opposite side of
where the beam is going to fire. A few moments later, Dexter jumps forward.
As he begins that jump, pull back. As soon as he lands, go forward.

…Eric…

Do you need the move to make to finish level three? or the first move(s)
for level 4? (I think you mean the latter) I’m about half way though
level 4, it took me a few days to figure out the first two/three moves.
If you really want to know, I’ll let you know in Mail so as not to give
any spoilers to people that want to solve it theirselves…
–
Paul

I just recieved E-Mail from Jim Pruyne regarding the game “Ogre” I recently
posted to chestnut and to Delphi.

>Unfortunately, I can’t keep this submission. A while ago, I had an Ogre
>like game on the server, but I received e-mail directly from Steve Jackson
>Games saying that they were enforcing their copyright on Ogre, and would not
>allow any Ogre like software to be distributed. I don’t know how strong
>their claim would be, but I’m in no position to test them .

I guess this means that the program will have to be removed from the data
base here on Delphi as well so I’ve asked the database managers here to
remove it.

Stephen (PAGAN)

I recently downloaded Allen Huffmans Maze demo which is a
generator to make developing maze style games easier. The first thing
that popped in my head was…”Boy would it be nice to have a Dungeons
of Daggorath part 3, this time on OS-9″. Really, the demo looks neat,
and I think the Coco is due for another sequel to perhaps the greatest
game Tandy ever made for the Coco.

>Chris<

I remember some discussion about this before, but I am having trouble
with Shanghai in Multi-vue. Shanghai works fine in a 40 x 24 graphics
window, but will not draw the windows in Multi-vue. I get an error 201
instead. How can the path be different in Multi-vue if I am using the
same diskette to load the game outside of Multi-vue and it works? What
paths are different?

Bill

Ii am having trouble getting shanghai for os9 to run. I see the title screen
then it clears and I get an error #201 and the os9 prompt back. Any ideas what
could be the problem? I have tried it under os9 and MV but niether way seems to
work. I get the same
error #201.

Can someone with access to Chestnut GET Scott McGee’s Star Trek fortune
program and put it up here? It is said to be under pub/OSK/MISC. Thx!

I didn’t know if you wanted a Premier issue of the Sounds of the Hounds?
Wolver is relasing five as you will se in the following message.
I may be able to get oyu one of the Delphi Five,, or one of the
promo’s which will go with some of th UPGRADE newsdisks.
?/
Til then,,, Terry Simons

You certainly overestimate my understanding of C . I don’t even
have the compiler, but I’m taking donations

Gene,

Does that w3HP printer driver disk include the HP Deskjet 500?

Bill

Spence,

Have you tried Radio Shack help line? Some time ago I got them to rewrite
the DMP-130A driver for Home Pub. for me so that it would work on my DMP-107.
It is a long-distance call, but here is the number: (817) 878-6890.

Bill

Is there any utility that will view JPG graphics, or convert JPG to something
that View can handle?

I am a new OS9 user and am running on a hard drive for the first time
under OS9 and I am having problems with a few progs!It seems that when
I have someone here that knows what they are doing I get most things
working but when I try topy progs to the hard drive on my own they
don’t seem to work.Since I can’t have someone hold my hand all the time
I could use some help from you guys here!I would like to put all my
OS9 stuff on my hard drive but so far I have only got stuff like
Rogue on by myself.I have KQ3 and liesure suit Larry on my hard drive
but that took someone sitting there telling me what to do!
Even though I have only a VERY BASIC knowledge of OS9 I would like to
put “Rescue on Fractalus” “Sub Battle” “Flight Sim II” and most
importantly”Multi-View” on my hard drive!I would also like to get
Color Computer Artist to work,it semms to be on there but won’t run!
If you can leave me a message with EXACT instructions on how to get
ANY of these or other OS9 progs to work on my hard drive wich uses
a COCO XT by BURK&BURK interface please help all you can becuase I
REALLY NEED the help!!!!(Actually I have the COCO XT-RTC interface)
One more thing,I need to know how to get rid of the directories that
I have messed up so that I can put the good progs in thier places so
that I don’t fill my hard drive with useless junk!!!!!!!
ANY help will help but please remember that I have just barely
started using OS9 and have a very limited knowledge of it.
Once I can get a few of these progs to work I will have a better
knowledge of how to get the rest of them to work!!

Ccan anybody tell me where I might find a help file for LSL In The Land of
Lounge Lizards similar to the

all. Any help would be appreciated.

I recently downloaded Shawn (EARTHER) Driscoll’s Shanghai for Level 2. Shawn
did an excellent job working within the confines of BASIC09 and illustrates
well the capabilities of his BASIC09 tools package, GUIB. Of course, it
goes without saying that it is slow in response and action. I had heard
that the OSK basic on my MM/1a was pretty much compatable at the source
level so I was wondering how fast it would run on my OSK system. I also have
a copy of Kevin Darling’s bgfx which is pretty much compatable with gfx2.

So, I go an edit the source to:

1) change all gfx2 calls to bfgx calls.

2) changed the window type codes in the DWSet and the GPLoad calls
from type 8 to type 3.

3) Haven’t changed these yet, but I suppose I will need to add second
and third params to the Palette calls there are.

4) Made the same changes in the guib.b09 program. It loads with no err
ors
and packs just fine.

I am getting an error 102 though when I try to load the Shanghai.b09 and the
stopping point is accessing the return value from a SYSCALL. If I hadn’t taken
the
Basic manual out of my OSK manual set (you know typical it is for MW to have
more documentation than will fit in the binders they give you, right?) to
make some room (I hardly EVER mess with basic), I probably could look this
up for myself, but I have missplaced where I put the manual I extracted.

The program DIMs a variable regs to the datatype registers OK. But after a
SYSCALL to determine the PID, how do I reference the returned value in
Register D0? The CoCo3 version got it from regs.a, but there is no a register
on a 68K MPU. It comes back in the D0 register. I tried changing the
variable regs.a to regs.d0 but that gives me an 020 error during the
program load.

Can anyone help? If so, with Shawn’s permission, I will upload the OSK
source for this nice game.

————————————
Zack C Sessions
ColorSystems

“I am Homer of Borg, prepare to be assimi … OOOOHHH, DOUGHNUTS!”

Tell you what, I’ll make you a deal on the dozen or so pairs I have, and you
can include a free joystick with the first 24+ copies! ;>

>>WHY! just because you don’t! MOST people who brought a NEW MM/1
etc were hackers, or people handy with a soldering iron, and adapt at
some programming and had worked with a Coco…

The whole point of having the MM/1 and other related machines
available is to GET AWAY from that train of thought. If we continue
with that thinking we might as well toss in the towel and drop the
68xxx machines, since it will only end up being 5 people telling
eachother how to hack the machine to make it work, rather than a user
friendly machine for people with at least half a brain. It may not be
MAC friendly right away, but as long as it’s decent…
Turn the point of view around and look at it this way, just
because YOU like to hack, why should this machine have to be hacked by
ALL other users for it to work. Many don’t have the knowledge you
obviously have. If you enjoy hacking, hold on to your Coco. Remember
just because most of the people who own MM/1′s now are former Coco
users, the only way to expand the market is to get people from outside
the Coco community, since 1) there aren’t that many left if Coco land
anyway and 2) They need users who spend money (DUCK!!!). Now if
we tell THESE people, “Well, if you want a joystick, just cut and
trace this to that and hack up this etc…”,do you honestly think they
are gonna stay?
>> If you want ease of use, ETc go buy a Amega or a MAC..or
IBM…….……Dennis

OUCH…I’m glad that isn’t the thinking at Blackhawk, Dirt Cheap
Software, or other MM/1 vendors, or we would DEFINATELY be in a hole
right now!

Btw, to clarify things to those with an interest in the MM/1; I
am not saying it ISN’T user friendly. I’ve heard that for the most
part it is, but have never seen the machine myself. I am just trying
to make a point, and am using that for argument’s sake.
See Ya
>Chris<

Making the MM/1 as compatible with CoCo hardware as possible was a
sensible idea, for the most part, but there is only so far that this should
have been carried. How is anyone who doesn’t have an old CoCo joystick going
to use the MM/1′s joystick port? These joystcks aren’t sold anymore by anyone!

I seem to remember that back in the days some company sold an adaptor to
make the CoCo 6-pin DIN joystick port accept traditional Atari type joystick
plugs. Does anyone know if the company and/or the product still exist?

It won’t make much sense to write siftware that uses a piece of next-to-
impossible to find equipment.

…Eric…

Does anyone know what is “up” with the entry “MGESHOW FOR MM/1″ in the
Games & Graphics area? I need to use it!

Thanks for any clues,

Dave

I just spent slightly under 2 hours downloading the JPEG files from the
database.
When I attempted to unpack them I get an error indicating that it is a bad
archive. I downloaded the exe’s a second time choosing them because that is
the smaller of
the two files. Again the file is corrupted somehow. I tried both lha211b and
LHArc. Yeah I know, why is a guy with a 6809 downloading OSK stuff? First
I wanted to see if I could get the source to compile and fly on a 6809.
Second I have a friend that has an MM/1 and I thought I’d grab it for him.
Anyway I can’t get either archive to open, even for a directory. Any help you
can send my way would be appreciated.

To all those with artistic talents…

Sub-Etha Software is looking for a few computer artists for some
upcoming projects. Those participating would receive free software
products from Sub-Etha Software (either for OS-9 or OSk), plus get to
see their name in lights! Anyone interested may send mail plus a sample
CM3, VEF, or GIF picture file you created to JOELHEGBERG for more
information. You can either be working under RS-DOS, OS-9, or OSk to
participate.

— Joel Mathew Hegberg.

Delphi : JOELHEGBERG
GEnie : j.hegberg
Internet : JoelHegberg@delphi.com

Can I still call you at the listed number here on Delphi?
I need some assitance on MVCanvas.

I just received my copy of Smash for Northern Xposure. Great game and under
OS9 to boot! I’m already addicted and this is day one. The wife is pulling
her hair out…. I guess I better get her a copy. One thing though, it
mentions a utility called VRN. Although its not essential, this utility
would make the graphics smoother according to the docs. I checked the
applications DB here and can’t find it. Does anyone know where I can obtain
this utility? Its written by Bruce Isted. Any help would be appreciated.
If anyone is on the fence about this game, go for it… It is first
quality and well thought out. I thought it would be a carbon of ARKANOID
but it is not. There are some nice features here that are miles ahead of
that game. Even without VRN, the graphics are first rate. With VRN, I
can’t say yet but its hard to see how it could be better. I would like
to find out. Thanx Alan! Now lets see some more good games, I’ll buy ‘em.
Charlie

How many CoCo users out there in Delphiland have an HP DeskJet 500C or 550?

I have a huge 9-page poster size Mandelbrot set image that you can print out on
your color deskjet (it almost uses up an entire ink cartridge), cut & laminate
together and hang on your wall. It’s in 8 colors at 300 dpi for an effective
resolution of 7200 x 9000 (24″ x 30″). Took about 2 CPU weeks to compute on my

spare COCO-3; the 9 files combined are about 4 MEG; to print out each page you
simple send the file straight to the printer – they’re text files with the
graphics codes embedded (so come to think of it you don’t even need a CoCo to
print them out …)

I will not post them unless I get at least 3 responses to this because it would
take an entire Saturday afternoon to upload them at 2400 Baud.

-Rich

Well I haven’t seen anyone else list any of thier fast times in solving a Tiles
board so I thought I would get it rolling. Here are my 2 fastest times.

Board: Triangle Game : 2 Time : 4:35

Board: Triangle Game : 3 Time : 4:48

This really is a fun game!

—————————————————————————–
Keith Bauer

CIS :71102,317
Delphi :keithbauer
Internet:keithbauer@delphi.com

Via InfoXpress/OSK ver 1.01 How ’bout them Cowboys!
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I don’t know his address but SMASH! is being distributed by:

Northern Xposure
7 Greenboro Cres
Ottawa, ON
Canada
K1T 1W6
(613) 736-0329

It is a fairly simmple breakout type game, but with 32 levels, 17 block styles
and the ability to customize, it is never boring. They print a warning in the
documentation about the addictive nature of the game that is worth reading!

John Brown

I am not affiliated with Northern Xposure other than I know the guys
personnally. I do not know if they can take phone orders with a credit card. All

I can say is call them and find out.

ps: I did SEE Smash! in action in Atlanta and let me say I was quite impressed.
It is a “Breakout” style of game but is 100 times more “dynamic” than Breakout
was. It looks particularly good on a supercharged (6309) CoCo.

————————————
Zack C Sessions
ColorSystems

via InfoXpress/OSK by Bill Dickhaus