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PostPosted: October 7th, 2011, 5:03 am 
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http://www.mediafire.com/?b60wbtfptq21k80


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Thank you! :)


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Aaaargh! That's what comes of being away from here for too long. I'd also like to take a look if anyone could re-upload ( both links are dead ). Thanks.


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Another plea for a re-upload here. :(

Failing that, does anyone know if Dragon Slayer was released for the original PC-8001 and PC-8001mkII? Or did it just come out for the PC-8001mkIISR and later models?


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Here you go: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8UC01KXR

But Dragon Slayer is not included, and it was not released on the PC-8001 or PC-8001mkII. It was originally released simultaneously on the PC-8001mkIISR, PC-8801, X1, and FM-7, and then later released on the PC-9801 and the MSX.


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Thank you very much - appreciated. Getting the file now. :)


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Dragon Slayer was also released for the Epoch Super Cassette Vision system.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/sof ... 844&id=284

The rom has been dumped and is around for download.


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kobushi wrote:


Thanks for that!

kobushi wrote:
But Dragon Slayer is not included, and it was not released on the PC-8001 or PC-8001mkII. It was originally released simultaneously on the PC-8001mkIISR, PC-8801, X1, and FM-7, and then later released on the PC-9801 and the MSX.


Ah, that's what I thought. What I'm finding quite confusing is that sometimes when a game saw release on the PC-8001mkIISR, or the PC-8001mkII, a website will list that game as having been released for the PC-8001, without mention of its successors. I think the authors of these websites are either abbreviating the later PC-8001 model names, or just don't appreciate the differences between the models.

At any rate, thanks for the confirmation. :)


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Starscream the 2nd wrote:
Dragon Slayer was also released for the Epoch Super Cassette Vision system.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/sof ... 844&id=284

The rom has been dumped and is around for download.


Good to know. I have a soft spot for Epoch as I loved their '80s table top electronic games, plus I've been enjoying dipping into the Super Cassette Vision's games library recently.


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RoryM wrote:
Starscream the 2nd wrote:
Dragon Slayer was also released for the Epoch Super Cassette Vision system.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/sof ... 844&id=284

The rom has been dumped and is around for download.


Good to know. I have a soft spot for Epoch as I loved their '80s table top electronic games, plus I've been enjoying dipping into the Super Cassette Vision's games library recently.


You can take a look into the MESS softlist to see which Super Cassette Vision (SCV) cartridges are already dumped.

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Anna_Wu wrote:
You can take a look into the MESS softlist to see which Super Cassette Vision (SCV) cartridges are already dumped.


Thanks Anna :) It's not actually MESS that I've been emulating the SCV with, but I'll give the list a look through to see if there's anything I'm missing out on, thanks again, Rory.


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Could anyone please re-upload the IMG pack? All download links seem to be broken, and I would like to take a look, specially on Alley Cat.


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Could anyone please re-upload the IMG pack? All download links seem to be broken, and I would like to take a look, specially on Alley Cat.


Not the original archive, but the files that were in it:

http://www.blackdiamond.co.za/temp/IMG_disk_images.7z

If you get any life out of Alley Cat, please share.


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Thank you very much, peter_j!


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If you get any life out of Alley Cat, please share.


Is there any PC-88 emulator with a good built-in debugger?


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 Post subject: Re: .IMG disk images??
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I've made some progress with the Alley Cat image.

The original disk has some odd sectors, specifically the 1st sector of track 0, and 17th sector of tracks 17, 19, 21, 23, 25.
I tried to make a clean backup disk, but occasionally I still get a "Bad allocation table" error.

The disk is readable if you boot from Disk BASIC first. The first 8 files are weird, though, with no names, and I can't access them.

The rest of the files are interesting. They look like assembly files, and there's a program called DUAD88, which was an old program development tool for the PC-8801.

I extracted all the files I could from the disk. Looking into cat1.e, for example, you can find the text:
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F1 kitten
F2 House Cat
F3 Tom cat
F4 Alley Cat

(C) 1983 Synapse Software
(C) 1985 KOTOBUKI-RAISON


So that's encouraging. But since these are all assembly files, I think they need to be assembled and converted into machine language before running the program. I tried to use DUAD88 to do this, but the options are cryptic and I don't really know what I'm doing.

Here's everything I have so far - the original disk image, my backup image, the extracted files, a copy of N88 disk BASIC, and a floppy containing the full DUAD88 tool.
Hopefully somebody else will know what to do next.


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