[Coco] VCC2.0.1 and DriveWire

[Bill Pierce]

Pere, just go to "Catridge/FD-502 Conifg" and select "External Rom" and browse to your hdbdos rom in the the browse box (just as it states in the Vcc manual). Then reboot (hit F9 twice).
If I remember correctly, the ini in the zip file was accidentally left in rgbdos mode.
This is the case with the MPI selections as well. They were meant to be left empty, but I forgot my last testing had left the ini file in the state it's in before I zipped the dir.
I should be making a new release soon as Joseph has fixed the WinXP issues as well as a couple of other things.

Vcc 201 known bugs:

Keyboard will stay in "OS9" (PC keyboard) mode no matter which setting it is on.
In Win Vista, F10 does not turn off the status bar in full screen mode, use <SHIFT>F10 instead. This does not seem to be an issue in any other version of Windows but Vista
You "might" experience a mouse bug while in full screen mode... On some builds, while in a 640 x 192 graphics screen in full screen mode, the mouse will not travel fulle screen. This bug seems to come and go with each build so it's been hard to track down what's causing it.
In the current release, Vcc will NOT run on WinXP. This issue has been fixed, but has not been released yet. I'm still waiting on one last bug fix before releasing.


The manual in the Zip is for v2.01.. not 1.43. I recently revised the manual with new info. There never has been a manual for 1.43, only 1.42. There may still be parts of the manual where I missed changing version numbers as well as a few other minor spelling and syntax errors, but for the most part, all aspects of Vcc 2.01 have been added. I actually started a manul for 1.43b, but never finished and I used parts of that document to make the additions to Joe's original 1.42 manual, so you may find references to 1.43b that slipped through the editing.

Oh, and anytime you're in hdbdos or rgbdos and can't access the virtual drives 1-3, try typing "DRIVEON" and if you can't access the floppies, try "DRIVEOFF", and if all else fails... try reading the HDBDOS manual.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Pere <psergm at gmail.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Oct 18, 2015 2:21 pm
Subject: [Coco] VCC2.0.1 and DriveWire


Hello,
I have downloaded and installed

"Vcc.2.0.1b.Coco.3.Becker.Port.Emulation.setup.exe"
It has created this MPI
slots assignemets:
Slot 1 - Orchestra-90  26-3143
Slot 2 - HDBDOS/DW/Becker 
00-0000
Slot 3 - Hard Drive  + Cloud9 RTC
Slot 4 - FD-502  26-3133

I have the
Drivewire server started and in the status line of VCC I can see:
Skip:01 FPS:60
MC6809 @0,89MHz MPI:3,3 DW: ConOK R:00.0 W:00.0 HD:No Image 
FD-502:Idle
So, it
seems that the drivewire connection has been made.
But I cannot access any disk
on the drivewire server.
Any attempt to DIR n (0-3) returns the directory of the
FD-502 disks
I use drivewire with XRoar (emulating Dragon) without problems
Is
there any way of starting HDBDOS? When I select slot2 and reset, then
it starts
only with Extended Color Basic (?)
For sure I am losing something ... or I need
a guide to DW4 for VCC
What I would like is to access any disk in DW4 and be
able to start NitrOS-9
from there against the VHD. I hope it is doable.

Another
point:
In case I add an VHD, for instance "Nitros9.vhd" then I can access a lot
of 
RSDOS
disks from 1 to 255 with no problems, but from that moment, I cannot
access 
the
disks on the FD-502 ... is this normal?

The file I downloaded has
the VCC 1.43 manual which explains just the std 
menu options.

cheers
pere



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