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Garry, assuming you are using VICE under Settings > Drive settings make sure that there is a tick next to True drive emulation. Just be prepared for a bit of a wait as the game loads.

Flag 17 is the area that the issue is around. PLOVER won't activate until it's set, you just get a "Pardon!" response... so I guess it needs to be set when the player discovers the magic word? There are a couple of ways that this may be set in the game (there may be more but these are the two I hav...

[...] there is a problem with the PLOVER command in Room Y2 (loc. 26) and in the Small chamber with the emerald (loc. 58); it doesn't work at all. My apologies for not noticing this earlier, but you cannot use PLOVER when carrying the emerald, you must remove the emerald from the Plover room by som...

Strident wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:32 pm

$97.50!!!

Which is approximately $300 today! ($29.95 comes out at about $90.)

And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you! (the nearest I could find to a winking tabby)

Alex wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 6:51 pm

If you like to see the names of available objects in a room. Type examine all.

It's like Catacombs in that pressing F5 brings up the "examine all" command - unless you change it by pressing F6. (F1, F3, and F7 also have built in commands that can be changed with F2, F4, and F8 respectively.)

Thanks :thumb: I'll look if I find something usefull. Ignore the old one, I have a better version now because I decided to download and use a proper hex editor. This has several advantages over my old method, not least I can automate a large part of the process and I no longer need to play the game...

Alastair would be nice if you can make a text file for this one as well, maybe it will reveal something. I haven't done much, just looked at the first few locations and available objects, so this preliminary decoding has masses of text still encoded, but it may still give some hints. Edit. Old vers...

Alex, taken from your post in the Cornucopia thread.

These verbs are only in Catacombs:
defile
stamp
swim
wake

This would suggest that these verbs are important in Catacombs. Stamp and swim we know about but what of the other two?

Yes I also switched to DOSBOX-X. but I'm still having problems loading games from a mounted image. In regular DOSBox I have to mount the floppy image with the following command: imgmount 0 [path to image]\save.ima -fs none (that's a zero, and obviously [path to image] is whatever it is on your syst...

Welcome Canalboy.
As you can see, we are all stuck!

I'm uploading my latest decryption of the text, but it doesn't add much over my previous upload in that it offers no further clues on how to progress with the web or plug.

Here are some further links to ROMs, all courtesy of the TRS-80 Color Computer Archive . First, the MC-10 ROM is at https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/MC-10/bios/ download "MC10.BIN" and rename it "mc10.rom" (the case is immaterial) - now you can run all of Jim Gerrie's conversions in XRoar! Next...

In recent months Ciaran has enhanced XRoar so that it now emulates the Tandy CoCo3 and MC-10 computers alongside the original Dragon and CoCo (1 and 2) emulations. Version 1.0.1 for various host platforms can be downloaded from http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ and more recent 'snapshots' from http://ww...

Alex wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 12, 2021 11:05 pm

Maybe you should repeat the command pull plug several times?

That was one of the first things I tried, it doesn't work.

Here is the latest version of "Catacombs_Text" - I have removed the earlier version.

Edit.
Old version deleted. See below for the latest version.