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- From: lowen@lorc.UUCP (Lamar Owen)
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- Subject: Re: TRS-80 Cosmic Fighter by Big Five - PLEASE HELP!
- Keywords: TRS-80 COSMIC FIGHTER BIG FIVE FOLKLORE WANTED
- Message-ID: <BLimoB1w164w@lorc.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 09:13:34 EDT
- References: <1992Jul26.053933.29260@infoac.rmi.de>
- Organization: LORC Enterprises
- Lines: 43
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- siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck ) writes:
- > >9125113g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis) writes:
- > >>Does any kind soul out there remember a game for the TRS-80 called
- > >>"Cosmic Fighter" by Big Five Software?
- > [Nice description deleted.]
- >
- > Mmmh, I got it running here on my Emulator, but I prefer the original
- > Cornsoft FROGGER! Much better sound :-)
-
- Ah... Frogger... This brings to mind the most unusual Model 3 disk I ever ran
- across....
-
- During the 1987-1988 "Great Purge" at Radio Shack (this was when ALL model
- I/III/4 stuff was DRASTICALLY discouted, I picked up six copies of Zaxxon, two
- copies of Frogger, and a mysterious "Master Bootstrap Zaxxon" disk. Egads!
- This disk was the create disk for Zaxxon!!! Run the programs of this disk, and
- it would format and write either a tape or a disk of the fiendishly copy-
- protected Zaxxon image. Zaxxon was neat in that it used a mixed density disk
- format; ie, track 0 of the disk was recorded TWICE, once in single density
- for model I boot, and once in double-density, for model III boot. The rest
- of the disk was recorded in single density (for model I compatibility), but
- with recorded track numbers that didn't match actual track numbers, and with
- a couple of weak sectors, along with mixed sector sizes. This disk I found,
- and bought for 99 US cents, had several programs on it to do this wierd
- format, and various other tasks.
-
- However, even with the level of protection that it had, it was cracked, and
- several versions of it are floating around.... Plus, it IS more convenient
- to simply type "zaxxon" at the command line, instead of having to boot the
- system.
-
- >
- > Wolfgang
- > --
- > siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
- >
-
-
- Lamar Owen, Systems Consultant, GE Lighting Systems, Hendersonville, NC
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