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

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 11/28/2016 01:23 AM, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> OK, so  I've created st disks (thanks Eero for the zip2st trick, it
> works perfectly).
>
> I've been able to play both Ishar 1 and Ishar 2 games.
> They work with hatari 2.0
>
>
> A remark : Ishar 2 plays with 2 floppies. I've inserted ISHAR 1.St into
> the drive A and ishar 2.st into the drive B.
>
> But the game asks me to insert the disk B (hatari seems not to detect
> the drive B).
> I had to eject the disk from drive A and insert the Ishar_2.st file into
> the drive A to let the game load the data from the disk.
> Maybe the game use only one floppy drive, I don't know.
>
> Eero, you can change the compatibility list for these 2 games ;)

Before that, could you verify following:

* Do they work with Hatari 2.0 release version, or only with
  later Mercurial version that has the Videl Address Counter support?

* Do they require DSP to be enabled, to work?

  (Main reason for the DSP info in compatibility list is that
  without DSP one can fast forward things much faster.)

* I assume they have sound, does that work fine in Hatari?

* Both Ishar 1 & 2 need to be run from floppy, it's not enough
  to just have some random floppy inserted?


	- Eero

> Regards
>
> Laurent
>
>
>
> Le 27/11/2016 à 01:06, Thorsten Otto a écrit :
> > On Saturday 26 November 2016 23:17:31 Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > > BIOS Getbpb() could be intercepted when GEMDOS HD emulation
> > > is enabled, for GEMDOS HD drives.  The returned pointer could
> > > point e.g. to a BPB structure in cartridge memory area.
> > >
> > > Thomas, any comments?
> > No, that would be wrong. If Getbpb returns a valid structure, it would
> > indicate that this is a BIOS device also, which is not the case. You
> > cannot
> > read sectors from it with Rwabs for example. Its just a bad assumption
> > of that
> > demos that they are run from a floppy.