[Coco] VCC Update

[Luis Fernández]

Ok for me, but keep this in mind
Start playing cartridges, every time you open one, you have to make a change in the selection of hardware to cartridge, and in the end, the hardware is used little, once loaded and not touching loads

Also if the directory is full of * .ccc, * .pak or * .rom, the interesting thing is to see the ccc at first glance, I propose something like bill,

Also the roms and the ccc are loaded in $C000, whether they are rom basic or rom cartridges and ccc also, just have to make a touch to accept .pac

Program pak (*.rom, *.ccc, *.pak)
Virtual Hardware (*.dll)
All (*.*)


By the way is written in English Program pak or Program pack?


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De: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> en nombre de James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com>
Enviado: viernes, 14 de abril de 2017 03:03 p.m.
Para: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Asunto: Re: [Coco] VCC Update

Bill and Luis, how about this as a compromise:

Virtual Hardware (*.dll)
Program Packs (*.ccc, *.pak, *.rom)
All Files (*.*)

So that away, there is a clear distinction between a ROM file, regardless the extension or a piece of hardware attached. That might clear up the difference between the two kinds?

Luis, the thing about using "Cartridges" by itself is that some carts (sound, etc...) would actually fall into the  Virtual Hardware category.

That was actually confusing to me at first, a while back, that you could load DLL's  -- so for some time, I couldn't understand what happened to my MPI and then I would go directly to the *.INI file and fix it there.

I still need to check if VCC already knows what do w/ the other extensions ... and the any file option would have to equate to being a ROM file as well.

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>

I would like to propose:
The virtual hardware should be called: instead of Program Paks, would it be, virtual hardware, would you agree?
Not integrated, I propose

Virtual Hardware (*.rom, *.dll)

Cartridges (*.ccc, *.pak)

All Files (*.*)
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De: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> en nombre de Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>

This looks cool James, It's something I've complained about since I first ran VCC back when Joseph was developing it.

BTW, Luis's patch could very well just include both sets in one line. There's not need to differentiate the types as they're all the same (except dll). It would get confusing to some. I.E. "Program Packs(*.ROM,*.DLL,*.ccc,*.pak)

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