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Most of the entries on World Of Dragon have both wav and cas files. It'd be interesting to try to load the wavs via ADC and compare with cas versions, seeing as wav files are usually proper dumps. You can even play them right from this archive, but I don't have a right cable atm to check it out.

Out of 6 random games from Dragon Archive I've just tried 2 work fine, 2 load some segments then hang , and 2 just throw IO/FM errors right away. So yeah, it is pretty hit and miss, but at least some games should work.

Did you try tapes from a source different than TOSEC?

I'm not sure if it's possible to install every floppy to hard drive - eg PC Booters?

I also had problems with running even 360kb images on 5160 as per this post.

I found some more examples of games which will only work on Tandy 1000 with the old xtide bios (Pirates!, Aaargh, Three Stooges, and more), so this is not just about Sierra games.

Like I said, these are "experimental" - meaning I did not have much time to test them, for various reasons.

If the old ones work for you, just stick with these, there shouldn't be much (any?) difference.

Ok, it's just a heads up. I did a quick search for Xtide+Sierra but nothing worthwile came up, so I don't really have any ideas atm. Will keep my ears open.

Perhaps it's worth considering making a note about it in the wiki though, and maybe keeping two different xtide roms in the github repo.

Thanks for looking into this. I will try to run these games on an earlier DOS version. It's good to know that the file swap solution works, but I won't use it en masse for this collection since I'd like to preserve the game archives as they were. I did write it in the project's description though.

You can browse pdf and txt files from the "Help" menu in OSD. These files should go into fat/media/docs/core-name (Isuppose you can put them elsewhere too but a particular core will look there first)

Good to see these boards are now available in shops. Two things:

• what's the difference between passive / active one?
• the MisterAddons board says "NTSC only" - I don't remember, were the cores also NTSC only?

Don't know how, but I've just tried again and all the problem BASICA games I mentioned above work ok on ao486.

As for substitute solutions, such as converting or trying other basic, perhaps that would work but it'd be a lot of hassle to do on a mass scale, and in any case I feel like these games should work on the core directly, at least in theory.