[Coco] More Newbie Questions for VCC

[Bill Pierce]

Glen,
I can't see why you would have a probem with Vcc 1.42 and disk images.
The only documentation you should need is the Color Computer Disk Extended Color Basic manual as the disk system in Vcc 1.42. is an emulation of an actual disk system.... nothing special.

Here is the "standard" disk config from the "Cartridge" menu:

Cartridge: MPI (mpi.dll)
MPI Config:
Slot Select: 4 for FD-502, 3 For RGB Dos (I think, try both :-)

MPI Slot 4: FD-502 26-3133 (fd502.dll)
MPI Slot 3: Hard Drive + Cloud9 RTC (harddrive.dll)
MPI Slot 2: Orchestra-90 26-3143 (orch90.dll)
MPI Slot 1: empty

Your FD-502 Config menu should be: (checked)
Dos Image: RGB Dos (or Disk Basic if you're NOT using a VHD)
OverClock Disk Drive (faster loads)
Persistent Disk Images
Clock at 0xFF50-51

Physical Disks
Both at none

Now in the "Configuration/Config" menu
CPU tab
Memory Size (any above 512k, NitrOS9 will support 2048k)
CPU: either Motorola MC6809 or Hitachi HD6309
Over-Clocking: minimum (for now)

Display tab:
[F6] Monitor Type:
RGB (unless playing games as some require Composite)
(check) Allow Resize (allow you to "max the screen, full screen may not work on newer computers but "max" will)
(check) [F8] Throttle Speed

Keyboard tab:
Keyboard Mapping: Basic if you want Coco keyboard emulation (see manual) or OS-9 if you want your PC keyboard layout (for the most part, again read the manual)

Joysticks tab:
Left/Right Joystick Input: I set both to mouse that way either will work, not good for a 2 player game though.

Misc tab:
Misc:
(check) AutoStart Emulation
(check) AutoStart Cart

All others use at your discretion

With these settings, it should behave just like a regular Coco 3, or a Coco 3 running RGB Dos (which ever you select)
The only difference in commands is the addition of the RGB Dos commands when that is selected, which are much like HDBDOS commands.
There are maybe a handful of programs that will not run under VCC mostly due to VCC not emulating some of the "undocumented" features of a Coco 3. For the most part, it's "dead on".

As a side note, if you are going to try to run Nitros9 on Vcc 1.4.2, you need to use the "standard" 40trk and 80trk disk images from the repo. BUT, they do not support the VHD and a special bootdisk will have to be built for that... sorry.. it's being worked on (finally).


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glen VanDenBiggelaar <glenvdb at hotmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 6:34 pm
Subject: [Coco] More Newbie Questions for VCC


Ok, so after reading the other thread on VCC, and me having to sell my CoCo 
collection last month, I decided to take a stab at VCC. I downloaded it from 
CoCo4.com (ver.1,42) and downloaded a bunch of images from the CoCo archives.
I can run the cassette images without any issues, but I cant seem to get any 
floppy images to actually work (yes, I have unzipped them). One thing I can't 
seem to find is any documentation or "getting started guide". I kind of am 
flying by the seat of my pants here- any help on a newbie guide would be much 
appreciated,
>From the other thread, I was able to load the hard drive, but I could not seem 
to boot to OS9 from it. I just got a white screen with "-------" on it, so I 
know i am close to something. 		 	   		  

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