[Coco] A "compile - able" CoCo emulator

[John M. Eicher]

I can't get to my laptop right now to see which one I am running, but I
don't think it is Jeff's.

The emulator I am running seems to be fine on speed and the like. It
seems very accurate to me and I logged a lot of hours behind CoCos from
the ol' 4k greys to the last CoCo2. I bailed before the CoCo 3. No doubt
it might not be as accurate as MESS, but the accuracy I needed was for
the one that would compile to an EXE.

Of course, I don't have any of my old Assembly progs from then and I
have not written any new ones so I can not say if the emulator I am
using will still be good enough for my usage after Barden's book gets
here.

As  I am thinking more about it, it would also be nice to be able to
produce EXEs that can be put on a webpage for public use. If the ROM is
an issue, the EXE could simply require the ROM image be on the disk like
a runtime file. Then it only requires two files. The ROM and the EXE. I
could live with that.

I would like to be able to do something like that has been done with
Sanctum and Calixo Island.

The sound on my emulator is lousy and I don't mess with artifacting
anyway. Most of what I write is database, communications, and other text
based stuff.

I'll have to check into RGB-DOS as I have never seen it before. It might
fix some of my problem.

Thanks,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
On Behalf Of Robert Emery
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Coco] A "compile - able" CoCo emulator


> 
> I was planning on checking to see if the CoCo2 emulator has command 
> line parameters. I highly doubt it will "autoload" a program, but I 
> could make an image file right after the program is executed under the

> emulator and have that loaded via command line. That is if my favorite

> emulator allows command line parms.

Perhaps you should try RGB-DOS for emulators. It will run an
AUTOEXEC.BAS file every time it starts up.

You can create a MESS shortcut that automatically loads the ROM, mounts
DSK images, printer (text file), whatever... thus giving the appearance
of a CoCo specific emulator.

I like MESS because it gives the most accurate emulation of a CoCo. The
others won't run at the right speed or produce sounds or do artifact
colors, etc... There's always a trade-off. I still use John/Jeff's CoCo3
emulator and Mocha for CoCo2 fun, but MESS is what I turn to for
accuracy.

Bob