[Coco] VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator v2.0.1 - Public

[Bill Pierce]

Barry, I agree and it's the reason it's configured that way.
I plan to extend the manual a little more in the future to explain the various possible setups for using drives, but until then I'll leave it as is.|
There's is nothing installed in VCC that isn't available to a real Coco. There's actually 5 or 6 completely different drive setups available in VCC when using OS9. Here's some possibilities.
Standard - 4 floppies
RGBDOS - 4 floppies, 1 EmuDsk HD
HDBDOS DriveWire4/Becker - 4 floppies, 4 HDs
SuperIDE - 4 Floppies, 2 CF images (2 HDs)

Now combine any of the above with DW4 and EmuDsk.

My current working system is running VCC 2.0.1, 6309CPU, 2meg memory, NOS9 3.3.0, 3 floppies, 1 EmuDsk VHD (120meg system drv), 8 DW4 VHDs (120meg each), with OS9 keyboard setup (standard PC keys).

My actual Coco 3 setup is Coco 3 6809, 1 meg memory, Eagle AT keyboard (PC style), no floppies, 2 x  4gig IDE drvs, 8 DW4 VHDs. So there's really little difference in my real Coco 3 and my VCC setup.

So far, the biggest problem with the new VCC seems to be an 'age' problem as Robert can't get it going on WinXP 32 bit. I've notice quite a few here that are using older computers for DW4 servers and emulators which allows them to run the JV and DK emulators as well.
I'm hoping it's just a need for the MS C++ 2015 runtimes as that's not included in the install and probably will be in the future as it is particularlly needed on older systems. I missed this as my old Vista system already had the runtimes from all my previous software installations and so I didn't think about VCC needing the C++ 2015 runtimes.

At least I hope that's the problem!

 And I'm tickled pink it's the installer is running under Wine... I was concerned that it wouldn't as I know many here are either Mac or Linux users.

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 2, 2015 8:50 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator v2.0.1 - Public


The existing configuration seems to work fine with floppies if no hard disk is
mounted. It makes it easier to mount a prepared vhd for the beginner. I would
leave it as is since it doesn't seem to break basic floppy usage or may prompt
for configuration during install and ask if the user wants an extended setup or
a stock vanilla CoCo 3.

On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:27 AM,
coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Should the emulator be configured to run
as a standard 512K CoCo3 with 
> standard ECB (plus DECB?) rather than HBDDOS,
Becker ports, drivewires, 
> hardrives, Orchestra 90 packs , multipacks?


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