Re: [hatari-devel] Ishar 1 and 2 falcon

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

OK, I've gone further.

Now, I've reached the main menu of the game and I can select to play in 
French (or english, ...)

In fact, the archive I downloaded from 
http://christophe.bray.free.fr/informatique/falcon/falcon_jeux2.htm#Ishar
contains 2 zip files, so I thought I had to make 2 floppies. But it 
seems that all the files must be on the same floppy.

When I copied all the files, I couldn't copy the 3 last ones (not enough 
memory).
So maybe I'll have to create a 81 tracks instead of 80 or there's 
something else.

After the main menu, the game loads until it reachs one of the 3 missing 
files.

Laurent



Le 26/11/2016 à 00:13, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 11/26/2016 01:04 AM, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> > Ishar tells me :
> >
> > Error 1:open presen.FO
> > TYP:0   ENT:0   POS:1652
> >
> > It seems that one of my files is corrupted.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that ISHAR 1 works under hatari, but my version seems
> > corrupted.
>
> It's also a possibility that the file names aren't copied
> correctly.
>
> Use "--trace gemdos" Hatari option to check what exactly is
> the name of the file, are there e.g. spaces between first
> part of the name and dot.  File names on floppy image can
> be checked with:
>     mdir -a -i <disk image>
>
> Some TOS versions may also have issues when copying files
> to larger than normal disk images.  Did you do copy using
> TOS to copy between GEMDOS HD & floppy, or did you use
> "zip2st" script to create floppy from directory contents?
>
> ("atari-convert-dir" script is also necessary if one is
> converting files with names longer than 8+3 chars.)
>
>
>     - Eero
>
> > Anybody has a floppy image of the game ?
> >
> > Laurent
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 25/11/2016 à 23:58, Laurent Sallafranque a écrit :
> > > So, I've copied all the files of the 1st disk on a 1.44 Mo floppy.
> > > Same for the second disk.
> > >
> > > When I insert the first Ishar disk into the drive A, the game runs
> > > better (I mean it goes to the Silmarils logo with the gems animations
> > > and the little sound).
> > > then, the LED A blinks, and become green and the loading stops after
> > > some loading (it display 00:00:06:1 in the statusbar)
> > >
> > > I'll try to get when it stops again.
> > >
> > > This confirms that the problem is not videl nor cycles exact but only
> > > that Ishar 1 must be run from a floppy.
> > > I'll check also Ishar 2, but I think it's the same bahaviour.
> > >
> > > Laurent
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Le 25/11/2016 à 23:49, Laurent Sallafranque a écrit :
> > > > I'm doing some more tests:
> > > > I've created to 1.44Mo floppy disks with hatari and I'm curently
> > > > copying the files of Ishar 1 on the 2 floppy.
> > > >
> > > > Something strange :
> > > >
> > > > When I enable floppy drive 1 and I insert the 1st floppy into and I
> > > > enable the 2nd floppy drive and select the 2nd floppy into the drive
> > > > B, I would have expected to have 2 floppy drives (A and B) actives
> > > > with a floppy in the drive A and another floppy in the drive B.
> > > >
> > > > But when I double click on the desktop icon of the drive B, the
> > > > emulated falcon ask me to instert the floppy B into the drive A ...
> > > >
> > > > Is it normal ?
> > > >
> > > > Laurent
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Le 25/11/2016 à 23:24, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > On 11/26/2016 12:22 AM, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> > > > > > I've given a closer look at ishar 1 and ishar 2 on Falcon.
> > > > > > They are both "installed" on my hatari falcon hard drive in a
> > > > > > directory
> > > > > > Ishar_1 and Ishar_2.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When I launch them, the program loop forever in these lines :
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > > The Trap BIOS 7 is : get floppy disk boot sector. This means that a
> > > > > > floppy disk has to be present in the floppy disk drive.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, the problem with Ishar 1 and Ishar 2 is absolutely not a
> > > > > > problem of
> > > > > > Videl or cycles or whatever but just that the games should be on
> > > > > > floppy
> > > > > > disks and not on the hard drive.
> > > > > > (From what I understand of the problem).
> > > > > > Can someone confirm ?
> > > > >
> > > > > There are few programs with which it's enough to have some
> > > > > disk in floppy drive, but otherwise they work fine from
> > > > > hard disk.
> > > > >
> > > > > Do your Ishar 1 & 2 work from HD with Mercurial tip version
> > > > > of Hatari if you have (e.g. empty) floppy in?
> > > > >
> > > > > And do they freeze with Hatari 2.0 & earlier even in that case
> > > > > (i.e. did they also have the Videl address counter issue, so
> > > > > that I can properly update docs)?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >     - Eero