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

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

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.

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