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I have discovered that CP400 emulation has been broken since version 0.130. The emulation seems to be failing during the DOS init stage. It works just fine if you replace the Prologica disk BASIC ROM with a renamed Tandy disk BASIC 1.1 ROM.

Just tried version 0.136. Same problem with CP400 emulation.

Does the CP400 emulation work OK on your system?

Also, the CP400 emulation seems to be broken with this latest release. On my system it gets as far as displaying the DOS message, but never reaches the command prompt.

Are you going to add 'binmode $output_file;' to your v1.1 (change version to 1.2) Perl script?

Perl is an unknown language for me at present; but from the information above I would think the following code placed at line 558 (Perl script v1.1) would do the job.
Is this correct?

So the fix is simple - Sixxie, I've added a "binmode $output_file;" at line 557 in the assembler script. I guess better minds than mine could work out how to do a 'if DOS then' kinda wrapper round it. http://alma.ch/perl/perloses.htm http://stackoverflow.com/questions/334686/how-can-i-detect-the-op...

If all else fails, there's a copy of Sprite Magic + manual for sale at RetroGames.

http://www.retrogames.co.uk/more/on/details/009090

Thanks Ciaran!

This improved version has the following changes: (1) Main patch code moved to unused bytes at $9FF8. (2) Hardware initialisation routine patched to help prevent games from switching the computer back to 32K mode. (3) RAM test routine patched to prevent ROM in RAM being overwritten if a game were to ...

You can get round this problem quite easily if you have a Dragon 64, or Dragon 32 with a 64K memory upgrade. I have written a small program which copies the BASIC ROM to RAM, and applies a patch to the joystick routine so that it disables audio in the exact same way as the CoCo. This program will st...