+eebuckeye Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I finally tried my SDC and it works great but I have a few questions.. - Where is the best place to download .dsk images? I have quite a few but see games in .ccc format that are not in my .dsk collection (such as GFL football and Silpheed). - Is there a way to use ccc files? - Is there an easier way to use dsk files or do you have to mount the disk then use like a regular disk? Is there a dsk image selector program? - My screen has vertical lines. I attached a picture but it is not great and shows horizontal lines that I do not see on the tv. Mainly curious if the vertical lines are 'normal'. - Most of the dsk files work fine but a few files on the dsk will not load. Is there a way to fully test the Coco3 to make sure nothing is wrong with it? - Some dsk files (such as Pacman) mount fine but look corrupt when I do a directory. Is this normal? How would I load the program with disk like this? I've never used a Coco before so everything is new! Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I finally tried my SDC and it works great but I have a few questions.. - Where is the best place to download .dsk images? I have quite a few but see games in .ccc format that are not in my .dsk collection (such as GFL football and Silpheed). - Is there a way to use ccc files? - Is there an easier way to use dsk files or do you have to mount the disk then use like a regular disk? Is there a dsk image selector program? - My screen has vertical lines. I attached a picture but it is not great and shows horizontal lines that I do not see on the tv. Mainly curious if the vertical lines are 'normal'. - Most of the dsk files work fine but a few files on the dsk will not load. Is there a way to fully test the Coco3 to make sure nothing is wrong with it? - Some dsk files (such as Pacman) mount fine but look corrupt when I do a directory. Is this normal? How would I load the program with disk like this? I've never used a Coco before so everything is new! Thanks!! Go here and download Briza's collection. That is just about everything ftp://ftp.tandycoco.com/dsk_imgs/rs-dos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 You do need Briza's collection to have everything. I have it stored on flashdrive, it is huge. However, there is also all games from the Color Computer Archive optimized to "plug and play" on the CoCoSDC. Let me get you the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Here you go. You need to go to the CoCoList. A member there named Gustavo Ranuar Schoenaker converted/renamed the games from the www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Games/ to CoCoSDC compatible on 2/22/2015. It is a must-have for the CoCoSDC, works great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Here you go. You need to go to the CoCoList. A member there named Gustavo Ranuar Schoenaker converted/renamed the games from the www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Games/ to CoCoSDC compatible on 2/22/2015. It is a must-have for the CoCoSDC, works great. Does Sinistaar and Warrior King work? They still don't work with drivewire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Good question Official Ninja, I need to check those. When I do, I'll post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Good question Official Ninja, I need to check those. When I do, I'll post. They don't work with DW, but the images can be made to real floppy and then played. So its good that the copy protection was broken with out having to do several patches to the disks to make them work. (As previously was done.) Actually Sinistaar works fine when written to disk, but Warrior King crashes when you press the button to open the gate and play. Would be nice if the person who patched it was informed about that so maybe he can fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 I believe Sinistar yes, but not Warrior King. I don't see WK in any compatible list. I had trouble with Sinistar, but I need to research what to do with multi-disk games, it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Here you go. You need to go to the CoCoList. A member there named Gustavo Ranuar Schoenaker converted/renamed the games from the www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Games/ to CoCoSDC compatible on 2/22/2015. It is a must-have for the CoCoSDC, works great. The interesting thing is that if you go to the site and download the excel spreadsheet it states many of the games do not work with the Coco3 which is confusing to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 I see what you mean. I think the Y means yes it needs a CoCo3 and the N means CoCo3 not required (but it will work on one). There are not near that many that don't work on the CoCo3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Ah.. that makes much more sense... don't know why I did not think of that.. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random_rodder Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Sinistaar DOES work with the SDC. I have not tried Warrior King. If you haven't already, download the manual for the SDC, it's quite complete on the functions and commands. You can download it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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