[Coco] VCC question regarding "Back Buffer in System Ram"

[Steve Strowbridge]

The disks I used came from the color computer archive it was an rsdos 158K
disk but after being written to, the size increases to over 200K.

I was not aware of any way to create a disk or specify any parmeters for it


On Jun 3, 2017 11:28 PM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Steve, when you create a disk using VCC, you are given a dialog where you
> set the type of disk, # of sides and size. Of the 3 formats listed, JVC is
> about the only format usable on all systems (Not sure about CocoSDC). It
> sounds like you may be using one of the other formats.
> I have no problems creating JVC disks for use with VCC, DW4, Mess, or
> XRoar and they always remain the correct size. I don't think VCC is capable
> of "expanding" a disk size once it's created, nor does it have the ability
> to "lock" disks. This sounds like some sort of permission problem.
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> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Strowbridge <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat, Jun 3, 2017 9:54 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC question regarding "Back Buffer in System Ram"
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> Thanks Bill, for responding, I didn't get an email notification of it, or
> Iwould have responded sooner.Here is what I can tell you about the "issue"
> it's absolutely my computer(my desktop) that's having this issue, and it
> only happened _During_ thesetup of drive wire, which I understand could be
> a complete coincidence. Imoved VCC to my Google Drive so I could work from
> my laptop, and my laptopdoesn't have the issue running the same EXE file
> off the same INI file.I do have the latest driver for my NVIDIA GTX 960
> graphics card, but I hadscrewed with the settings, which I just reset back
> to standard.I'm still having the issue, and I'm not "blaming" VCC, but I
> wanted toreport it just as an FYI.So, here is a different "issue" or
> perhaps, it could be looked at as a"Feature"The .DSK images that are being
> handled by VCC end up becoming larger thanthe standard 158K RS-DOS initial
> image, and are not able to be read on athe CoCoSDC, they are not able to be
> read by XROAR at all, and I was ableto read them in MAME as read-only, and
> then had to copy them to a newlycreated floppy disk via MAME.I don't know
> if this is by design, or if it's worth reporting, because, forme, I'd like
> to take a project I work with on an emulator, and be able tobounce it
> around the physical and virtual world at times.Thought it was worth
> mentioning, and if this is already common knowledge,forgive my ignorance to
> it.I do want to make something perfectly clear, I am in no way trying to
> "shiton" the VCC project, I'm not trying to fan the fire of hate and
> debateabout the various emulators.I have been using VCC for a while, and
> for the most parts, it's been goodto me, I'm having issue now, and they are
> frustrating me, but I'm nottrying to jump on a bandwagon of any sort, just
> wanting to share someinformation if it's relevant.Thanks!Steve Strowbridge,
> akaThe Original Gamer Stevie Strowhttp://ogsteviestrow.
> comogsteviestrow at gmail.comOn Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Bill Pierce via
> Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>wrote:> Steve, as I answered on the issues
> page, I think that's a directx problem.> I had the same issue once but I
> can't for the life of me remember how I> solved it. I really don't see how
> setting up dw4 had anything to do with it> as that has absolutely nothing
> to do with the video. I'll try to remember> what I did to solve it, but you
> can try downloading and installing the old> DX9 runtime and see if that
> helps>>>>>> Bill Pierce> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't
> stop going, no way to> slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull>> My Music
> from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3>
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> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com>>>>>> -----Original Message-----> From:
> Steve Strowbridge <ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>> To: CoCo Mailing List <
> coco at maltedmedia.com>> Sent: Sat, Jun 3, 2017 1:16 pm> Subject: [Coco]
> VCC question regarding "Back Buffer in System Ram">> Bill Pierce, before
> you even start to think about telling me to post> thisissue in GitHub, I
> already did :)So, my issue today, that I hope there> is a quick solution
> to, is a recent"feature" I've encountered where upon> launching VCC I get
> an initial errormessage that says "Creating Back Buffer> in System Ram!
> This will beslower", and to make things worse, in this mode,> I can't move
> the VCC appover to my 2nd monitor which is where I want it to> do my
> recording stuff.This happened when David Ladd showed me how to> connect VCC
> to DriveWire 4(Which is no longer running).So I first tried to> manually
> un-do all the changes that connected me todrive wire, no go.I then> deleted
> and reinstalled the program, same issue.Then I downloaded a clean> copy,
> and installed to a different folder on mycomputer, still the same>
> issue.It's a problem for me that probably wouldn't affect anyone who>
> doesn't wantto use VCC on a different monitor, but for me it's a deal>
> breaker on how mycurrent recording setup goes, and I'm probably going to>
> have to switchemulators if I can't get it fixed.Any and all help is>
> appreciated.Steve Strowbridge, akaThe Original Gamer Stevie>
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