[Coco] Now using VCC as well as MESS

[Wayne Campbell]

The disk image I named in a previous post to this thread is the latest
6309/becker image, so far as I know. I don't know why the boot fails in
VCC, but it does. The one you made for me has never failed on me, not even
once, even after adding the dw-related modules to the boot.

Again, I am willing to try my hand at building one from the repo. I just
need a pointer to the instructions for setting it up, including the
lw-tools and toolshed parts. I think I still have a copy of toolshed, but
has that changed too?

Wayne



On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2013 9:26 PM, "Wayne Campbell" <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I decided today was the day to see if VCC would run on this PC. I started
> > using MESS 1.36b on my laptop because VCC wouldn't even launch on it.
> This
> > computer is different hardware, but the same XP Pro I installed on the
> > laptop. I figured the hardware difference could do the trick, and I was
> > right.
> >
> > Instead of downloading the 3.2.8 vhd image on the site, I set the FD-502
> > drive 0 to my 80-track boot floppy image, and the HD drive 0 to my vhd
> > image. I set the keyboard to OS9 mapping and started the emulation. It
> > worked flawlessly.
> >
> > I am wanting to see if I can get the Becker port working, but there's
> > nothing in the emulation help about it, and nothing in the way of options
> > in the config or devices menus.
> >
> > I will research that more tomorrow. My question is, will I be able to use
> > the Becker port as a way to telnet to another location, such as IRC. I am
> > (not at this moment) writing a IRC client, and being able to telnet
> through
> > the Becker port would allow me to test the software locally.
> >
>
> Wayne, you should use the standard Becker disks from the nitros9 page.
> Don't use anything I sent you years ago.
>
> >From an application perspective it does not matter whether the transport
> is
> bitbanger, turbo bb, Becker port, or otherwise.  Just open /n and go for
> it.  All of the underlying differences are taken care of for you, so the
> same irc client binary will work unchanged with any type of connection.
>
>
> > Wayne
> >
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