[Coco] Frustrated! ARGH! - Cheeky Solution!

[Alan Jones]

Hi David,
Congrats on getting the Coco3 emulator working. Necessity is the mother of
invention!
It is amazing what we can do when we have to! Your creativity paid off.

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]On Behalf Of David
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:31 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Frustrated! ARGH! - Cheeky Solution!
>
>
>
> >
> > b) I cant get Jeff Vavasour's Coco3 emulator working for the
> life of me..
> it
> > either hangs (ROM-related for sure), or if I use the os9boot.mor file as
> the
> > rom, it wont recognise any disks as valid for booting
> >
> >
> > Anyone got Jeff's coco3 emulator working?
> >
> > Anyone in Australia got a coco3 for sale?
> >
> > Anyone out there? heeeelp! *sigh*
> >
> > - Dave
>
> A quick solution to my own mess..
>
> I used Jeff's "GET3ROM.BAS" and ran it within MESS.. which dumped
> a copy of
> the coco3 rom and disk basic to a virtual coco disk
>
> Using the "port" utility that came with Jeff's Coco3 emulator, I
> transferred
> both COCO3.ROM and DISK.ROM to my pc hard disk as data files (an
> initial run
> where 'port' thought the files were ASCII and I didn't notice obviously
> ended badly.. make sure all conversions are 'off!')
>
> Now Jeff's Coco3 emulator boots and runs wonderfully!
>
> Now I just need to get either OS-9 running, or disk edtasm :)
>
> - David
>
>
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