[Coco] Terminal program for 16K non-ECB coco?

[Bill Pierce]

Chris, I can't find one old enough. The smallest one I can find is 20k. I know there was one fo 16k because I used it for about a year till I upgraded to a 64k machine. It always pissed me off when my buffer would get full and I'd realise that the file I was downloading was larger than my memory. I have few cassettes that survived Hurrican Floyd so I may ty looking through them. It will be sometime next week though due to the fact I am not at home and my Coco is. I return home Friday and I'll search those tapes.

Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
Bill Pierce
ooogalapasooo at aol.com




-----Original Message-----
From: chris <cralt at comcast.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 12:57 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Terminal program for 16K non-ECB coco?


Bill,

So is Mikey happy to live in 16K?


CAPS ONLY is kinda a pain on a unix machine.. lol


thanks
-chris

On Sep 8, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:

>
> No need for further discussion. That did what I wanted. It seems for  
> some reason, the Coco emulater is not indented in the list as the  
> others. I had assumed it was a catagory listing and not an emulator  
> as all the other Cocos are indented under it. Too many years in  
> Windows Explorer I guess :-)
>
> Thanks again Mr Gault. The whole reason for this was to test some  
> versions of MikeyTerm I've found for Chris and I wanted to emulate  
> his machine.
>
> Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat, Sep 8, 2012 11:09 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] MESS at 16k non-ext was Terminal program for 16K  
> non-ECB coco?
>
>
> Bill Pierce wrote:
>>
>> Mr Gault... I should have known better <laughing>
>>
>>  I'm not trying to change ANY hardware into any others. I mearly  
>> want to set
> a Coco 2 or Coco 1 to 16k, Color Basic. (no ext basic), as was a  
> standard retail
> configuration (I own one). I tried 2 versions of MESS, "Mess0125b" &
> "mess0143b_x64" (I have a 64 bit machine), both in Windows Home  
> Premium 64 bit.
>>
>>  When the "Ext Basic" roms are removed from the rom zips, NO  
>> version of Coco
> 1 or 2 will run at all. MESS reports missing Roms and exits the  
> emulation. The
> Coco 1 will actually set to 4k, 16k, 32k, & 64k.... BUT....
>> Did anyone ever successfully run Ext Basic in 4K?
>>
>> I do not know how to set the "ini" file in ANY version of MESS, and  
>> maybe this
> is what I should have asked in the beginning. Can you turn off the  
> "Ext Basic"
> rom check? If so, How? And what version would do this best? I can  
> and will run
> any Windows or Dos version to achieve this.
>>
>
> OK, I've tested with MESS .143 .
>
> With MESS, if you don't want Extended Basic present, you should use  
> coco
> emulation not cocoe, coco2, coco2b or anything else. I've tried  
> coco2 emulation
> and while you can remove the disk11.rom you can't get rid of the  
> extbas11.rom
> and get emulation to start.
>
> This version still supports messui.exe and with my Windows system, I  
> find it
> easier to set parameters using messui.exe than mess.exe. Even with  
> coco2, I can
> set and get PCLREAR1 PRINTMEM 13095.
>
> Now, I find MESS .143 slightly buggy. That's because setting  
> parameters for
> specific emulations does not always take. It helps when using  
> messui.exe to set
> the paramters for say coco and then kill messui.exe. The next time  
> it starts the
>
> parameters usually take.
> MESS uses the sub-directories cfg and ini to store parameters. If  
> you set
> parameters or even used coco emulation, you should find a coco.ini  
> file. Right
> clicking on an emulation in messui.exe permits selection of  
> properties and there
>
> is a configuration panel for selecting memory size.
> ROMs are stored in the sub-directory roms which either holds zip  
> files or more
> sub-directories for each emulation with .rom files.
>
> When coco is set for 16K and started, you should see
> COLOR BASIC 1.0
> Enter the following
> PRINT MEM
> and see
>  14631
>
> I think that further discussion would be better off this list by  
> direct e-mail.
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