Master 512 DOS+ Software

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:11 pm

Thanks again Marcus for all your hard work

Cheers Rob

Truth be known I'm enjoying creating this library.
I like to contribute and it became a possibility through the hard work and dedication of the very talented members of this group.

Right.... where did I get to... Ah yes... 'P'

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:53 pm

Today there are more text adventures :

Plundered Hearts.zip: (263.66 KiB) Downloaded 339 times

planetfall.zip: (244.07 KiB) Downloaded 341 times

Philosophers Quest.zip: (275.5 KiB) Downloaded 333 times

Phantoms Revenge.zip: (239.95 KiB) Downloaded 335 times

The Pawn.zip: (391.65 KiB) Downloaded 332 times

This is the only Magnetic Scrolls game thats working at the moment. It is using a different interpreter.
Theres also a utility ( xtract64 ) that can be used to convert C64 story files.

Graphic Detective adventures :

Perry Mason Case of the Mandarin Murder.zip: (194.88 KiB) Downloaded 336 times

Psycho.zip: (561.91 KiB) Downloaded 329 times

A Pirate RPG :

Pirates of Barbary Coast.zip: (342.22 KiB) Downloaded 339 times

A Space RPG :

PSI-5.zip: (173.38 KiB) Downloaded 334 times

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:55 pm

And....

Three Action Games and an ASCII board game :

pipe dream.zip: (105.19 KiB) Downloaded 335 times

PC-man.zip: (240.06 KiB) Downloaded 351 times

Paratrooper.zip: (246.99 KiB) Downloaded 341 times

pente.zip: (249.52 KiB) Downloaded 317 times

Marcus

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:41 pm

New games for this week :

Text Adventures :

Rambo First Blood.zip: (216.83 KiB) Downloaded 327 times

Return to Doom.zip: (283.35 KiB) Downloaded 342 times

Snow Queen.zip: (244.26 KiB) Downloaded 317 times

Seastalker.zip: (260.86 KiB) Downloaded 332 times

Graphic Adventures :

shenan.zip: (143.89 KiB) Downloaded 346 times

seasearch.zip: (126.47 KiB) Downloaded 325 times

Sherlock Holmes another Bow.zip: (145.74 KiB) Downloaded 334 times

An Adventure with mapping :

Skullduggery - Adventures in Horror.zip: (209.83 KiB) Downloaded 326 times

A simple arcade game :

Shawl.zip: (252.08 KiB) Downloaded 332 times

A card game :

solitare.zip: (237.49 KiB) Downloaded 323 times

Marcus

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:43 pm

For Easter... Its more Text adventures... mostly Infocom

:

suspend.zip: (253.61 KiB) Downloaded 330 times

Suspect.zip: (252.48 KiB) Downloaded 334 times

Stationfall.zip: (263.45 KiB) Downloaded 348 times

Starcross.zip: (358.77 KiB) Downloaded 331 times

Spellbreaker.zip: (237.07 KiB) Downloaded 325 times

Sorcerer.zip: (247 KiB) Downloaded 321 times

Survival in New York City.zip: (239.98 KiB) Downloaded 322 times

Spy Snatcher.zip: (279.7 KiB) Downloaded 324 times

An adventure based on the book :

Stephen King The mist.zip: (223.66 KiB) Downloaded 325 times

A simple graphic spy adventure :

spynorth.zip: (242.99 KiB) Downloaded 319 times

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:47 pm

And...

Two StarTrek RPGs :

The first contact manual is available on the net ( approx. 18Mb )
Theres a walk through with each game

ST First Contact.zip: (248.49 KiB) Downloaded 313 times

ST Kobayashi Alternative.zip: (158.62 KiB) Downloaded 324 times

This looks like a decent Helicopter Flight sim. :
The closest manual I've found so far is the included Amiga one.

Super Huey.zip: (253.44 KiB) Downloaded 308 times

Marcus

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Thu May 03, 2018 9:50 pm

I've been working on hardware recently...
Here's what's next in the uploads :

Graphic Adventures :

Talisman Challenging Sands of Time.zip: (350.95 KiB) Downloaded 315 times

The Black Sanctum.zip: (118.43 KiB) Downloaded 304 times

The Tracer Sanction.zip: (167.48 KiB) Downloaded 305 times

Text adventures :

The Golden Fleece.zip: (283.76 KiB) Downloaded 292 times

The Hulk.zip: (263.66 KiB) Downloaded 307 times

The Usurper - The Mines of Qyntarr.zip: (180.47 KiB) Downloaded 299 times

Arcade Game :

Tau Ceti.zip: (221.86 KiB) Downloaded 317 times

TV Quiz :

The $100000 pyramid.zip: (153.78 KiB) Downloaded 311 times

Rogue Like :

telengard.zip: (177.53 KiB) Downloaded 297 times

Shoot the Wumpus style :

The Thing.zip: (252.67 KiB) Downloaded 297 times

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Thu May 03, 2018 9:59 pm

And....

Infocom Detective text adventure :

The Witness.zip: (240.16 KiB) Downloaded 306 times

A spooky text Adventure :

Transylvania.zip: (202.13 KiB) Downloaded 323 times

Two more Graphic adventures:

Transylvania 2.zip: (191.68 KiB) Downloaded 308 times

The Wizard of Oz.zip: (188.7 KiB) Downloaded 321 times

Marcus

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Tue May 29, 2018 6:20 pm

Some more working software :

Text adventures :

Drive in.zip: (354.48 KiB) Downloaded 218 times

trinity.zip: (228.2 KiB) Downloaded 204 times

Twilight Ransom.zip: (329.2 KiB) Downloaded 211 times

voodoo island.zip: (223.45 KiB) Downloaded 206 times

Graphic Adventures :

Trekboer.zip: (272.81 KiB) Downloaded 215 times

treasure island.zip: (181.81 KiB) Downloaded 220 times

An AI conversation Simulator :

Racter.zip: (515.36 KiB) Downloaded 217 times

A board game :

turbogomoku.zip: (250.38 KiB) Downloaded 204 times

Corporate Simulator :

Wall $treet raider TCS.zip: (207.15 KiB) Downloaded 216 times

A StarTrek game written in BASIC :

warp.zip: (263.37 KiB) Downloaded 205 times

Marcus

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Tue May 29, 2018 7:26 pm

And also

Three versions of the hit TV game :

Wheel of Fortune.zip: (372.04 KiB) Downloaded 209 times

A Simple Detective RPG :

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (1985).zip: (193.27 KiB) Downloaded 220 times

A Survival Simulator including Manual :

Wilderness survival adv.zip: (4.66 MiB) Downloaded 216 times

Another game-show type thing:

Win lose or draw.zip: (168.83 KiB) Downloaded 215 times

A text Adventure :

wishbringer.zip: (257.93 KiB) Downloaded 231 times

A Dungeon RPG :

Wizards Castle.zip: (260.67 KiB) Downloaded 201 times

Arcade Game :

x-fighter.zip: (245.21 KiB) Downloaded 213 times

A Zombie Survival RPG in French :

zombi.zip: (2.66 MiB) Downloaded 200 times

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Tue May 29, 2018 7:54 pm

And Finally for this DOS archive....

Zork Fest...

Infocomic Story :

Zork Quest Crystal.zip: (255.79 KiB) Downloaded 206 times

And the ubiquitous :

zork1.zip: (257.13 KiB) Downloaded 230 times

zork2.zip: (261 KiB) Downloaded 209 times

zork3.zip: (252.64 KiB) Downloaded 224 times

All the software so far works without 'Psolver'
I have a folder of titles that almost work... So, I will try them again with Psolver 2 pre-loaded.

Also, there are more archives to trawl through.. I'm guessing they will mostly repeat what I've posted already

Marcus

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Sun May 05, 2019 1:54 pm

Its been a while...

Magnetic scrolls games :

Corruption
Fish!
Myth
Guild of Thieves
The Pawn
Jinxter
Wonderland

These are ports of the C64 versions.

They need PSolver2 - PS3.exe to be running.
I find Its best to pull all the files into one folder and then run each game by invoking the Interpreter in text only mode ( -d1 )
eg magnetic -d1 fish

Marcus

Mag Scrolls.zip: (1.11 MiB) Downloaded 148 times

KenLowe · Post by **KenLowe** » Sun May 10, 2020 3:39 pm

Thank you for uploading these. That's me now able to run Zork on my beeb using both CP/M and DOS via PiTubeDirect. I've copied the Zork games over to my DOS DRIVE-C and now able to run from the HDD

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BeebMaster · Post by **BeebMaster** » Mon May 11, 2020 11:11 am

I downloaded all these a while back (with Down them All when it used to work) with the intention of installing them all on a DOS Plus hard drive partition, although I never figured out exactly how I would do it.

Coincidentally last night I wrote a little script to extract all the files from the image files, after I'd unzipped all the archives and moved all the .img files to their own directory. It worked quite well:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash
# Extract all files from DOS disc images to a separate directory
# Images in Images dir; extracts go to Extract dir

mkdir Extract
mkdir disc
cd Images
for i in *.img ; do
j="${i%.*}" ;
echo Extracting $i to $j ;
sudo mount -o loop -t vfat "$i" ../disc ;
cp -R ../disc ../Extract/"$j" ;
sudo umount ../disc ;

done
rmdir ../disc

So now I've got a logical copy of all the files. I haven't worked out the next step yet, it will possibly involve transferring using Econet and the putfile DOS Plus utility, although I don't know yet if that's even possible. Many of them have more than 47 files, or 77 files, and some even 255 files, in a directory so that will be a challenge.

Another idea I had was to mount the DRIVE_C file as loop device and add them that way.

However there's 40MB of software there, so it won't all fit on a maximum Master 512 partition.

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Mon May 11, 2020 4:12 pm

Currently I just mount the images using IMdrive and shift files about to create 720k test images for use with GOTEK

Heres a new one : David Ahl's Basic Computer Adventures (1986)

davahl.zip: (305.8 KiB) Downloaded 109 times

The batch files dont work.
Both BasicA and GWBasic work.
(GWBasic requires a re-boot between uses since it it locks up with an error code - cannot SHELL to BASIC )

Marcus

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Mon May 11, 2020 5:11 pm

Here's another

Intercept... Mystery Adventure

interc.zip: (253.5 KiB) Downloaded 120 times

beatkamp · Post by **beatkamp** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:58 am

How is everyone making *.HFE images of these *.IMG files for use with PiTube and a Gotek?

I am having a bit of trouble doing this. I have tried using the HxE utility, loading up the IMG file and then
exporting an HFE.

What I get on the Acorn / DR-DOS is a disk image with unnamed folders and no content.

Obviously I am doing something wrong.

beatkamp · Post by **beatkamp** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:07 am

Ok, it looks like the "Mind Shaddow" image is corrupt. I assumed if "Mind Shaddow" isn't working then everything is also not working. I just made an *.HFE of "Super Huey" and that works perfectly.

The HxE Floppy Emulator utility will process *.IMG floppy images into *.HFE files that can be used on the Gotek under DR-DOS.

I am using a Model-B with a Pi3 on the Tube doing 802086. Its just fantastic.

After playing a few games I want to get Borland Turbo-C v1.5 running on this machine.

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:42 am

I use the images with GOTEK and flash floppy.
Along with a physical BeebSCSI ( should also work wth BeebPISCSI emulator )

beatkamp · Post by **beatkamp** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:30 pm

Hmmm.... I need to update and say I am not convinced "Mind Shaddow" as posted here really is corrupt.

I have made a few floppy images from scratch and they are all rubbish.

So, I am doing something wrong with the HxC disk images.

I was building 800kb, 12 bit FAT, 80 track floppies. This is not working.
Converting a floppy image someone else made does (mostly) work.

Will have to keep tinkering with it.

Post by **danielj** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:03 pm

You should just be able to use the .img files straight out of the box without converting them. So long as they're 720kb or 360kb .img files it should be OK?

d.

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:28 pm

Yep all 720kb disk images created with either virtual floppy drive or IMdrive ready to use with flash floppy.
I think they may also work with a vanilla gotek but I dont have one at the moment.

beatkamp · Post by **beatkamp** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:43 am

Ah! So 800k is where I am going wrong. Ok, I will try 720k.

beatkamp · Post by **beatkamp** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:09 am

Ah! So 800k is where I am going wrong. Ok, I will try 720k.

And... uh... wut???? I don't have to convert *.img files?

Geez, I wonder what else I am getting wrong? Indeed , the IMG loads up
perfectly on my Model-B. Trying out "Mind Shaddow" now and its great.

Hopefully I can post something here shortly once I figure out how to
create a floppy image with "sillyfun.exe", etc. on it.

beatkamp · Post by **beatkamp** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:57 am

Post by **danielj** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:19 am

beatkamp wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:09 am Ah! So 800k is where I am going wrong. Ok, I will try 720k.

And... uh... wut???? I don't have to convert *.img files?

Geez, I wonder what else I am getting wrong? Indeed , the IMG loads up
perfectly on my Model-B. Trying out "Mind Shaddow" now and its great.

Hopefully I can post something here shortly once I figure out how to
create a floppy image with "sillyfun.exe", etc. on it.

The last thing, just use the HxC software to create a new image dos image and it lets you drag files into it. It's one of the options on the main menu. Or use WinImage.

Bit of an explanation about what's going on... IMG files are straight sector formats, you need to "know" what the sector layout is to be able to use them. FlashFloppy makes some assumptions based on size, and it knows that 360/720k IMGs are most likely to be IBM PC format, so serves the sectors up to the floppy interface accordingly.

HFE is a representation of the fluxes on the disk - the really "low level stuff". The floppy emulator doesn't care about the disk size or format or anything when it's dealing with HFE, it just serves up the low level stuff as described in the file. Whether it makes sense or not is up to the creator of the file. This is useful for converting actual floppies, using something like GreaseWeazle, into image files that can be used on the floppy emulator when you *don't* have a suitable sector format, or there are disk protections etc, etc.

DOS+ on the 186 coprocessor can deal with quite a few formats - it has a funny 640k format that it uses to boot (you might be able to get away with that as an ADF format disk, I can't remember - it's essentially ADFS), and then a native 800k format (very similar to archimedes ADFS, but the sector numbering is different). The latter needs to be converted to HFE as I recall as FlashFloppy doesn't have a native representation of it, although you can "describe" the format and use sector images (see the flashfloppy wiki for how).

DOS+ can also just read normal IBM format disks - 360/720k is fine. Hence, you can just get away with using the IMG files of these and not worry about converting anything

d.

cjr8bs · Post by **cjr8bs** » Wed May 19, 2021 8:54 am

Thanks for these and all the work involved. I have downloaded them with the intention of eventually adding them to the Master 512 section of 8BS as I check them out. Initially I have found that simply renaming the extension from .img to .dos enables the images to be loaded and run in Beebem 4.16 although I haven't tried out many so far. By the way, I use .img to denote ADFS 800k discs on the 8BS website

cjr8bs · Post by **cjr8bs** » Wed May 26, 2021 7:56 am

All of these images are now in the Master 512 section of the 8BS download catalogue. I have checked them all out, occasionally added stuff to the info and added documentation and walkthroughs where I could find them. I have also separated out the files from the images into their own folder within each zip. Just in case. http://8bs.com/catalogue.htm

AndyGarton · Post by **AndyGarton** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 4:22 pm

Is anybody able to explain the “psolver” mechanism please? It seems some software needs this (somehow in combination with the shift lock key?), but I’ve been unable to work out what it means.

marcusjambler · Post by **marcusjambler** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 4:48 pm

Some info here:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13702

Manual Attached:

problemsolvermanual.zip: (150.48 KiB) Downloaded 81 times

Run Psolver3.exe
Press 'Shift Lock'

Then run the software.

Marcus

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