fuzzel wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:47 pm
Thanks lurkio, I've now made my first arrest but encountered what I believe are a couple of bugs on the BBC version.
Can you say what the bugs are? ROT13 if you want to avoid spoilers.
fuzzel wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:47 pmI'd like to play the Archimedes version which I'm assuming is the original bug free version so have fired up Arculator v0.99 (I know it's not the latest one) but am struggling to mount the .jdf file which my version of Arculator doesn't recognise. I wonder if anyone can help? Looking around forums.jaspp.org.uk I see that I probably need to access the ADFFS filer icon menu but I've no idea what that is or where that is; is it a separate emulator, is it an add-on for Arculator or is it something completely different?
Archie/RPC emulation has always been a bit of a black art to me. Still, I've just managed to get the Archie version of COPS running in RPCEmu on a Mac. I'd already installed !SparkPlug in RPCEmu. (!SparkPlug seems to be the recommended decompression program for Archie/RPC.) I used !SparkPlug to expand the latest version of the ADFFS zip archive file, which is attached here:
https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/viewt ... 4182#p4182
Then I launched !ADFFS. The ADFFS icon appears in the taskbar.
I then used the standard RISC OS GUI to change the filetype of the COPS .jfd disc-image to "Floppy". Then I was able to double-click the COPS .jfd disc-image file, and a new window popped up and displayed the contents of the disc-image: !COPS and ReadMe.
I dragged the !COPS icon onto the HostFS emulated hard disk, and a copy of !COPS then appeared on the HostFS filesystem. I was able to double-click it to launch the game. (Or you can just double-click the original !COPS file in the popup ADFS window -- no need to copy to HostFS.)