[Coco] Now using VCC as well as MESS

[Wayne Campbell]

I have joined #coco_chat. Hopefully I can get farther faster that way.



On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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