Polar Star from disk
Hi there - I used to own this game on cassette and loved it as its such a pure space shooter.
I recently tried the dsk version and couldn't get it to work on any emulator. It just keeps resetting all the time. I could however make the cassette image load without problem. This was annoying as android MSX emulators don't seem to support CAS images. So ... I tried using DSKExplorer and copying the files out the cassette onto a blank DSK and recoding the basic loaders a little to use the disk instead. What happened ... it didn't work! looks like Polar Star I *think* uses a clear command that may clear the disk I/O kernel functions so loading of cassette would be fine but not from disk. Then ... I came across dsk2rom and that got me thinking - I bet a romed dsk wouldn't use the real kernel disk IO so maybe just maybe my defective hacked dsk would work once it was converted ... guess what ... it did
Polar Star as a ROM at last!
It'd be nice to be able to share this rom but I'm not sure what the correct etiquette is - I've tried contacting MicroCabin before and never had any joy so I can't really ask for permission to do so, but it'd be nice for more people to play a good ol classic
Polar Star as a ROM at last!
It'd be nice to be able to share this rom but I'm not sure what the correct etiquette is - I've tried contacting MicroCabin before and never had any joy so I can't really ask for permission to do so, but it'd be nice for more people to play a good ol classicReplies (1)
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