[Coco] Mess is a mess.... again....

[Bill Pierce]

Christopher, where did you download your version 170?
 I downloaded mine from the mame github site and the gui version from "The Mess Place". Both have the quad density drives setup. Also, I'm using the "CC3HDB1" ext (for becker port), and the drive only gives the "Qd" option.

Another thing I've noticed in almost every version I've downloaded for the past two years is that in the "Natural" keyboard the arrow keys are locked out. This seems to have something to do with them being setup for joystick emulation or something, but I can't find any setting to unlock them (tried the input mapping). They seem to work in "Emulated" but I hate that keyboard (maybe I need to remap this one). I even use an AT keyboard on my real Coco so I'm in no way familiar with the old Coco layout anymore. In OS9 C, I need to get to "[ ] { } \ |" and I can never remember the odd key combinations for them.

They seemed to have finally straightened out the timing in 1.70. Back in the 15x releases, there was a delay on the key reads and the video was jerky (scrolling). I couldn't set anything that would get rid of it. That seems to be gone. The Becker port seems to be working better now as well, but I haven't tested it extensively (seems a little slow).

I actually like the way this version runs if I can get rid of those "5.25 Quad Density Floppy Drives" and fix the arrow keys in the "Natural" keyboard setting.

 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2016 7:58 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Mess is a mess.... again....

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:18:50 +1100Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:> On 24/02/2016 2:22 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:> > > What I can't> > understand is that it's been like this since before v1.56 (now 1.70)> > and no one has noticed it ????> > As I mentioned, v0.166 works for me with DSK images.> > Regards,>     And v0.170 works for me with all the DSK images I can find...Christopher R. HawksHAWKSoft-- "You're now a frishlingman of two thousand oh-knot."		-- Joe Robins, on chit-chat (at) swil.org----------------------------------------       \   ^__^                        \  (oo)\_______                            (__)\       )\/\                          ||----w |                               ||     ||               -- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco