Story Machine...

[Opry99er]

Having played this for a hundred million hours with my son over the last few days, it strikes me that the SAVE feature in this cartridge is very interesting. I have been saving to cassette for him, and he has sort of taken over and does it on his own now.

 

 

 

I started to do some testing on the outputs for this game... It is really fascinating that there is no real text in the output file.

 

Anyway, this is the disk output... I imagine that a hex examination of the data saved from CS1 would be identical.

 

Now I need to figure out how this module puts out this data. I would like to write a program that saves data to tape like this one does... to be loaded at a later date.

 

 

 

00000000 46 1F 00 02 00 56 00 9F 00 02 00 62 FF FF 01 E2 F....V.....b....
00000010 01 CB 01 9A 02 36 01 E2 00 63 FF FF 01 E2 00 E6 .....6...c......
00000020 00 B6 FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000000F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000001A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000001B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000001C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000001D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000001E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000001F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000200 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000210 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000220 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000230 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000240 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000250 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000260 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000270 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000280 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000290 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000002A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000002B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000002C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000002D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000002E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000002F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000300 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000310 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000320 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000330 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000340 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000350 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000360 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000370 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000380 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00000390 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000003A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000003B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000003C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000003D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000003E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
000003F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

[+Ksarul]

It is probably a set of tokens that are associated with the appropriate words/pictures in the module. . .so most of the heavy lifting for interpretation is there and not in the file.

[Tursi]

Using DSRLNK to load and save is not too difficult. CS1 adds an extra wrinkle because it's a GROM DSR, and so many DSRLNKs (including the EA one!!) do not support it.

[+Lee Stewart]

In the July, 1986 issue of The Smart Programmer 2(2), pp. 9 – 12 is Craig Miller’s GPLLNK/DSRLNK, which is very compact and handles tape I/O. I modified it slightly for use with fbForth. Here is my transcription of it before I modified it (I added a few comments tagged with my initials, ‘***les***’):

 

UniversalGPLLNK_DSRLNK.txt

 

...lee