Installing Diggers on a Raspberry Pi
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:57 pm
Hello Folks,
I recently picked up a copy of Diggers by Millennium Interactive and am looking to run the game on RISC OS on a Raspberry PI.
So far when looking to get setup to game on the Acorn I have used a combination of games distributed by JASPP using !PacMan and have also used ADFFS to run floppy disc images of various cover discs I've imaged using OmniFlop on an old XP machine to access the programs contained therein. I've used OmniFlop to create ADL files of each of the discs and have labelled them Diggers D1, DIggers D2 and Diggers D3.
I have moved each of these images across to the 26bit RISC OS 3 emulator on the PI but find that whilst I can load each one in turn I'm not able to swap between the games three discs using Ctrl + Shift + F1 to F3.
If I run the game from Disc 1 the game intro begins but I'm then unable to switch discs. Installing the game to the hard disc gets me to a "Try again on DIsc 1" error.
I'm thinking that I might need to either create a JASPP ADF or JFD file but am not sure if I can do so from my existing adl images I created using OmniFlop. Alternatively, I might need to use a boot script to combine the three discs I have together. I've read references to a collection of such boot scripts in an Obey.zip file but don't know if this is published on the forum and if so where to find it.
Many thanks for any guidance anyone might be able to offer on how I could potentially move forward!
I recently picked up a copy of Diggers by Millennium Interactive and am looking to run the game on RISC OS on a Raspberry PI.
So far when looking to get setup to game on the Acorn I have used a combination of games distributed by JASPP using !PacMan and have also used ADFFS to run floppy disc images of various cover discs I've imaged using OmniFlop on an old XP machine to access the programs contained therein. I've used OmniFlop to create ADL files of each of the discs and have labelled them Diggers D1, DIggers D2 and Diggers D3.
I have moved each of these images across to the 26bit RISC OS 3 emulator on the PI but find that whilst I can load each one in turn I'm not able to swap between the games three discs using Ctrl + Shift + F1 to F3.
If I run the game from Disc 1 the game intro begins but I'm then unable to switch discs. Installing the game to the hard disc gets me to a "Try again on DIsc 1" error.
I'm thinking that I might need to either create a JASPP ADF or JFD file but am not sure if I can do so from my existing adl images I created using OmniFlop. Alternatively, I might need to use a boot script to combine the three discs I have together. I've read references to a collection of such boot scripts in an Obey.zip file but don't know if this is published on the forum and if so where to find it.
Many thanks for any guidance anyone might be able to offer on how I could potentially move forward!