[Coco] Latest Release of the VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator

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Oh I can definitely see the use in software development.  :)

Eventually I’m going get around to setting up a dev environment and do some programming,
and I’ll want it for testing things.  So far everything I’ve been doing on the CoCo is hardware.

It looks great.

- Ed


> On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> Ed, the thing I like about emulators (VCC in particular) is using them in deveopement of software. I don't use crosscompilers or PC tools, but when compiling a 100+ source, multisource/multifile C program, it could take a real Coco3 HOURS to compile (literally!). With VCC overclocked to 89mhz, it only takes a few seconds and I'm still compiling in the Coco/NitrOS9 environment.. With Drivewire4, the compiled files are shared with my real Coco by sharing VHDs across DW4 instances and I can compile and run in less than a minute.
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> Another thing is text editors.. I use Ed3.1 which is a graphics oriented full screen text editor. Screen refresh and scrolling are a little slow on a real Coco3, and when inspiration hits and you want to make those changes, save, compile and run, with the overclocked VCC, screen refreshes and scrolls on the text editor are instantainious, making workflow really fast.
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> Plus, I get to use a 6309 with 2 meg of memory...ar 89mhz!!!
> My real Coco 3 is a 6809 with only 1 meg.
> It also saves wear and tear on my real Coco and CM-8 monitor.
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> Of course I understand anyone who wants to use the real thing... my hat's off to you.
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> Bill Pierce
> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
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