[Coco] Emulator problems

[Steve Ostrom]

Has anyone had any success with this CD yet?  I've been reluctant to 
give it a try.

-- Steve --



David J Bush wrote:


>I got my CC3 emulator in the mail yesterday, August 30.

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>My OS is Windows 98 SE. I have all the necessary updates from

>the WindowsUpdate website.

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>My drive is a CD-ROM drive. Am I supposed to have a CD-R drive

>to read this disc correctly?

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>Under Windows, I am able to open the first folder, CoCo_CoCo3.

>I can then open some of the sub folders such as

>"COCO Emulator docs"

>I believe I was able to read the MS Word file there, although it

>wasn't particularly helpful, dealing with added assembly language

>instructions.

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>When I try to read any html or pdf file, my system crashes. It

>crashes so hard, I can't even reboot. I have to turn the computer

>off.

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>When I try to open the folder "CoCo3 512k emulator v2.0" the

>system hangs and probably crashes, but I have learned to quickly

>reboot at the first sign of trouble, so I'm not sure if it would

>have crashed or not.

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>If I try to access the disc within DOS, the folder names are much

>shorter and not very informative. And I sure can't read any html

>or pdf files (at least, not the way they were intended to be

>viewed.)

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>A piece of paper that came with the CD gave me a URL. Here is a

>quote from the installation instructions:

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>"Included in the zip is a Disk BASIC cartridge which will need to be

>inserted into a multi-pak slot before COCO disk can be accessed."

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>Uh, this is an **emulator** here. How am I supposed to insert anything

>into a multipak slot?

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>Then it tells me to execute the file "COCO" well what folder is it in?

>Am I supposed to search around under DOS for this file, with the

>truncated and confusing directory names?

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>I notice there is a file "rs405eng.exe" on the disc. rs might mean

>Radio Shack, but I'm not about to execute a file without documentation

>telling me to. And why is winamp206.exe on the disc also? What do I

>need winamp for? Is this a virus?

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>Someone else mentioned a FAQ. Where is this FAQ?

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>Should I contact David Keil for assistance? Does he have an email, or

>must I use the snail mail address I got?

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>So far, I'm glad no one asked me for money first.

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>Thanks for any help you can provide.

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>David Bush

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