[Coco] Emulators on a laptop?

[Joel Ewy]

Frank,

I've used Vavasour's emulator on old Compaq P-133 laptops with Windows
98.  The CoCo's text display was goofy if the emulator was running
windowed, but with an <alt><enter> to make it full-screen, it works just
fine.

JCE

farna at att.net wrote:
> Has anyone got one of the emulators to run on a laptop? I'm working with an old HP 5500CT P133 laptop with around 128MB of RAM. Couldn't get DOS to work with the PCMCIA card CD-ROM drive, finally stopped fighting with that after an hour of getting nowhere! 
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> I got David Keil's emulator to run, but the video was all messed up. Tried different screen refresh rates, and sync on and off, but didn't clear it up. All the setup screens worked flawlessly, just the CC3 screen was bad. I didn't try to change CC3 screen modes... darn, that's probably all I need to do!! I didn't get it to recognize the disk drive either. The docs are not very helpful. I did get the floppy controller in slot one, and the HD controller in slot 2 of the MPI. 
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> Vavasour's emulator wouldn't display at all. It just gave me a blank screen. None of the setup screens or anything would come up on the laptop. I might plug in a standard monitor and see if the emulators will display correctly. At least that will let me know it's a hardware problem with the laptop display and the emulator is running.
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> Any advice appreciated! Nothing is on the laptop except DOS 6.22. I performed a clean install including formatting the little 1.2GB drive this morning. 
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