[Coco] VCC Update

[William Carlin]

VCC Windows lacks two key features that I'm sure everyone would love.

1) The ability to paste text and have VCC process it just like you are
typing on the keyboard.  This would be a great time saver for typing in
RS-DOS programs, eliminating the drudgery of converting text and then
adding to a disk image with ToolShed.

2) Change the maximize window behavior to more closely match that
of XRoar.  Currently if you have a wide screen display, like most of us do,
when you maximize the VCC window or go full screen, the display is
stretched horizontally.  As a work around I have a display shortcut to
change the desktop resolution to something that is 4:3 aspect ratio
compatible so the VCC display remains square when maximized.  I love how
XRoar keeps the CoCo display square when you maximize the window.
Optionally a 4x and 8x zoom would also be handy.

Just my 2 cents.


William Carlin

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 2:14 AM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:

> David Ladd wrote:
> > ... VCC only understands DLL's for it's
> > cart input because of the way the emulator was written.
>
> Hey David ... it can actually take a DLL *OR* a ROM file. If you load a
> program PAK ROM file directly from the Cartridge | Cartrige drop down
> menu,  what happens is the MPI functionality goes away and all you have is
> whatever ROM you loaded booting on power-up. To get the MPI back, you have
> to load the MPI.DLL from that same drop-down menu.  Then you can load each
> slot pak the same way ...
>
> Which, after checking that, I just realized on my current development the
> MPI slots insert menu item does not bring up the select file dialog.  Will
> have to look into why.
>
> James
>
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