Can't get Maniac Mansion to work using 64HDD
Marc Belier
I connected a C64c to a 486 running 64HDD. Didn't work using a Pentium, but
this works fine. Cable used is a XE1541.
All works fine, games load great, missing lots of sleep etc, but there's one
problem: two of my favourite games don't work.
Maniac Mansion is the first. When I load the contents of the D64 image and
list it, all I get is the header, no files. Same for the second disk.
Stubbornly typing LOAD "MANIAC MANSION",8,1 doesn't help, it replies that
it's not there.
Zak McKracken is number two. Doing a dirlist of the D64 works fine, it gives
the same result as actually loading the authentic disks would.
Problem is that, after the Eagle Soft intro, all I get is some coloured
pixels. Try again, and I get a black screen with a green border.
Disk images were downloaded from Arnold and C64.com, and work fine on CCS64.
Other games (including multi-disk games) work fine.
Anybody any ideas?
Thanks,
Marc
MagerValp
MB> All works fine, games load great, missing lots of sleep etc, but
MB> there's one problem: two of my favourite games don't work.
MB> [Maniac Mansion & Zak McKracken]
They use fastloaders and 64HDD doesn't support that. It doesn't actu-
ally emulate a real 1541, it just implements the transfer protocol
that CBM drives use to communicate. You might want to try 1541emu, but
it requires a different cable and a pentium computer with a fast
parallel port.
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Christian Link
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:54:29 +0100, "Marc Belier"
<vo...@antispam.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>All works fine, games load great, missing lots of sleep etc, but there's one
>problem: two of my favourite games don't work.
>
>Maniac Mansion is the first. When I load the contents of the D64 image and
>
>Zak McKracken is number two. Doing a dirlist of the D64 works fine, it gives
First, the directories may have been tampered with in order to "hide"
their contents. That's nothing special, and actually, the games should
still work after issueing a LOAD"*",8,1 command. But that's probably
not the main problem.
The main problem apparently are these games' fastloaders, which most
definitely won't work with 64HDD. I guess you'll have to live with
that until 64HDDs compatibility improves further :-( .
Greetings,
Chris.
15...@surfeu.fi
> two of my favourite games don't work.
> Maniac Mansion is the first.
> Zak McKracken is number two.
I think I have successfully tested Maniac Mansion with 1541EMU. Zak
McKracken should also work. Can someone confirm this?
Ville Muikkula
Axell
Marc Belier wrote:
<snip>
>
> . Try again, and I get a black screen with a green border.
>
> Disk images were downloaded from Arnold and C64.com, and work fine on CCS64.
> Other games (including multi-disk games) work fine.
>
> Anybody any ideas?
NTSC specific, game/loading routines.
Marc Belier
I'll give it a try. Just browsed the 1541Emu page and it certainly looks
interesting. Think I'll drag my C= stuff over to a friend's place, see if we
can get this to work!
Thanks!
Marc
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Marc Belier
actual 5 1/4 disks. Since these are the only two games I can't play so far
:-)
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MagerValp
MB> On the other hand... It might be easier to hook up a real 1541,
MB> and use the actual 5 1/4 disks. Since these are the only two games
MB> I can't play so far :-)
Yes, that might be a better option. With Errol Smith's Unzip64 or Pasi
Ojala's gunzip64 you can unpack the d64 images to the 1541, so you
don't need any additional transfer software.