[Coco] Is anyone else using Xroar?

[Bill Pierce]

Tony,
Yeah, XRoar is a different beast from Vcc. No similarities between the two other than they both emulate a Coco, albeit, one a Coco 2, the other a Coco 3.
 
Almost all the keys to XRoar are in the manual, though not easily located. The Mac version may be different, but the author wrote it for Mac, so I assume the manual is as well. The windows port is a hack that "just works".
 
Xroar is real particular about the virtual disk formats you use. It's native format is "DMK". It will read JVC, but will not write back to them. Also, there's several different types of DMK disks it will not read.
BUT, if you use XRoar with driveiwre via the becker port (XRoar has it), it will write JVC format in a dw4 slot. In RSDOS , I use HDBDOS, and in OS9, I run NitrOS9 level 1w/becker.


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>>I run the Windows GTK snaps so that I have full menu access. 
The manual for Xroar is quite confusing regarding the GUI versions.
I'm running on OSX, and the GUI sure looks like a GTK GUI to me, but isn't.


>>You're trying to run it on a Mac right? I was trying to help someone set it up on a Mac recently >>(through email) and we never got it to work. He was running Mountain Lion. 

Yeah. For some reason the author chose to allow the roms to be put in two differen't locations in the home directory. One is under ~/Library (plus a subdir that i forgot).

When I saw ~/Library, I expected this was a typo, because /Library is a system directory.

Long story short- I finally got it the roms working. Have your friend email me if he needs help.

Plenty of other problems to deal with now.



I have a DSK file that works in VCC, but Xroar gives me an IO error when I type Dir.

The key mapping between Xroar & VCC doesn't seem to be the same.

I got a short cheat sheat sent to me by the author, but these are not even in the manual.