[Coco] VCC Status …

[Bill Pierce]

>From what I understood, Steve was "hosting" Vcc for download as Joseph was losing his site. If I'm not mistaken, it was downloadable from "Coco3.com" as well (or in the posts on the old sote) as Joseph used that forum to get feedback. Joseph "may" have given Steve a copy of the sources (and permission) to use for his "Coco 4" project, BUT... if Steve does own it, you can forget it. He won't even release his own software to public domain and is ocassionally on here telling everyone to remove his 30 year old stuff from their sites.

All Steve's site says about Vcc is:

Vcc is a Color Computer 3 Emulator for Windows using DirectX 8 or Higher.

We do NOT offer support for this program. We only placed this information here as a second source for this version of the program.

What's Emulated:
A Tandy Color Computer 3 with 128K, 512K, 2048K or 8192K of ram. Selectable Motorola MC68B09 or Hitachi HD63B09.
Two 2 button joysticks.

Included Modules will Emulate:
FD-502 Supporting 3 Double Sided or 4 Single sided Floppy drives. Supported format include DMK,JVC,OS9.
Real Disk access is supported on Windows 2000 or higher via the FDRAWCMD libraies provided by Simon Owen.
See the links page for download information. Hard disk Controller (.vhd) with Cloud-9 RTC. 4 Slot Multi-pak interface. Orchestra-90 Sound Synthisizer.

System Requirments:
Pentium III at 500Mhz+ running Windows 95 or higher with Direct X 8 or Higher. Windows 2000 or higher and a supported Controller chip for RAW disk access. Only 8,16, and 32 BPP are supported. 24BPP is not nor will it ever be supported.


Most of which is a direct quote from the Vcc manual PDF. I see no indication that he owns it. I think Steve would've changed the copyrights in the program as well as the manual if he owned it.
And if you check the download page, the download link has been removed (??).
Also, Steve has never mentioned Vcc or the fact it was modified for DW4, or that it's publically available on almost all download sites. Vcc and it's sources have been the subject of MANY posts to this list (some very heated) and in all our conversations of Vcc (some of which went on while Steve was actively posting to threads here), he has never chimed in to say he owned it or anything about it. That being very unusual of Steve (if he owns it) LOL

Steve Bjork, if you see this... please speak up :-)

 

 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Jul 18, 2015 1:37 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC Status …


> From: SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
>
> Take a look at the rest of the site the VCC
program is hosted on. Very Interesting, yes.
>
> Vcc, Color Computer 3 Emulator
- CoCo 4
://www> http.coco4.com/vcc/index.shtml

So, are you saying the owner is
Steve Bjork?  


 		 	   		  

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