Can anyone help here? I'm trying to find ADAPT.COM but I'm having a hard time. It doesn't seem to be at the usual locations...

ADAPT.COM? What's that program supposed to do?

It's part of the START.COM package and seems to adapt certain disk images to work with START.COM. I never managed to get START.COM running at all though.

I found it in my archive... and you can download it right here.

BiFi: if you never got it running, you have been doing something weird or you got a broken START.COM... Loads of stuff runs fine with it, there's a list on the Ultimate MSX FAQ. But stuff like Ys (all 3) or Feedback should definately run.

Aleste 2 works with START.COM without modifications (like ADAPT.COM) iirc.

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It's part of the START.COM package and seems to adapt certain disk images to work with START.COM. I never managed to get START.COM running at all though.

you have a Turbo-R, right? I think there are better solutions for that computer
and thanks for the file!

Better options like FDE or HDDemu come to mind. Only drawback is that FDE doesn't seem to work with a MegaSCSI interface

MegaSCSI, however, comes with the amazing 'EP' tool, which is the best floppy disk image emulator tool in the world.

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you have a Turbo-R, right? I think there are better solutions for that computer and thanks for the file!

I have, though I have tried it with a 8250 as well... and I indeed use a better solution on the turboR... FDE.COM (still need to do some HDDEMU tests).

And your're welcome...

Aleste2 will not work with start.com because it spins down your hdd when you swich disks

You need to use a hex editor and search for the following values on all three disks
(i will make a patch for this in a while)

DD 21 29 40 (LD IX,$4029)

after these are three values DC xx xx (CALL C,$xxxx)

These three after the DD 21 29 40 need to be changed to 00 (NOP = No OPeration)

There are two of these on every disk from offset 1F0x and 210x (searching is faster )

On the PC you can use HIEW.COM to change these in the disk images b4 writing them to disk/cd
(use F7 to search for them, it's faster) I can put hiew for download on neardark.nl if you can't find it

When you changed this you can either use "copy /b disk1+disk2+disk3 aleste2.dsk" in the command prompt and write aleste2.dsk to cd or use any .dsk to floppy writer to put the .dsk's on disk
and read them on the msx with getdisk
(i recommend getdisk because aleste2 doesn't have defect sectors)

After this you can play aleste2 from your harddisk with Runit, i didn't test it with start.com but i think it will work (on turbo-r z80 mode should be enabled what Runit will do by default)

(all games i tested with fm-pac music needed z80 mode, psg games seemd to work fine on R800 mode
runit /r filename.ext)

You can download Runit from www.neardark.nl/downloads/tools/runit103.rar

Readit is new but is very slow reading the disks because it reads one sector at a time
it does the job to run games with defect sectors, for example Kyokugen, from HDD

There is no Writeit and because i won't support copying games i will never create one.

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after these are three values DC xx xx (CALL C,$xxxx)

ITYM "CD xx xx"

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Quote: after these are three values DC xx xx (CALL C,$xxxx) ITYM "CD xx xx"

No it's really DC xx xx... CALL C,$xxxx, not just CALL

/me not awake. mea culpa.