Grievous Bodily 'ARM (APDL Sporting Games Collection) on RISC OS 3.11

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Grievous Bodily 'ARM (APDL Sporting Games Collection) on RISC OS 3.11

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Anyone had any luck getting this to run on RISC OS 3.11? According to the JASPP entry for this game, the original releases have problems with disc swapping, so I assumed that the version found on the APDL Sporting Games Collection would be the best way to play it. However, it has the LoadModeFile issue that several of these APDL releases have on older versions of RISC OS. I tried commenting out the LoadModeFile <Obey$Dir>.Monitor line from !Run, but then get another error: "SWI name not known 120, File '' not found".
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Re: Grievous Bodily 'ARM (APDL Sporting Games Collection) on RISC OS 3.11

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wmd wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:30 am According to the JASPP entry for this game, the original releases have problems with disc swapping
The following change in ADFFS 2.83 might resolve that issue, I've yet to tested it with GBH though:
  • MiscOp 1, now returns the following sequence after a floppy is mounted:
    1 x Changed
    7 x Maybe changed
    No change from then on

    This works around a bug introduced in RO3.60 and avoids repeated polls to check if a floppy is inserted. Tested with Birds of War
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