[Coco] [COCO} VCC 1.43beta release

Brian Blake random.rodder at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 14:46:26 EDT 2013


On 4/18/2013 2:39 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I didn't really try to work with the Becker/DW4 ROM in slot 1 of the MPI
>> before I sent my earlier message. Yes, VCC appears to boot, but, then locks
>> up with no cursor activity...
>>
> To use the Becker HDBDOS, configure the fd502 to use and external rom
> and point it at the ROM file.  Be sure to review the ReadMe, shown
> during installation and available via icon in the Start menu or as a
> text file in the installation directory for more info.
>
> You'll want to have your settings for the Becker port in place and the
> DW4 server running so that Vcc can attach prior to booting up with
> HDBDOS.  It gets rather upset if it cannot talk to DW, nature of the
> beast.
>
>

The problem appears to be that you can't have the nitros-9 disk (or 
mostly likely any disk already mapped to DW4?) inserted into a floppy 
disk  in VCC - with it being accessed by DW4, it didn't like it...



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