[Coco] CoCo 'Extended ADOS 3'--How do I get this working?

[Arthur Flexser]

Hard to tell...possibly a corrupted file or an emulator bug.  Has anyone
else here succeeded in getting Ext. ADOS-3 working in one of the emulators?
 (I seem to recall that someone did a long time ago, don't remember which
emulator.  Jeff Vavasour's, maybe.  I think Jeff mentioned he had to do a
few tweaks to get emulated Ext. ADOS-3 working.)  Make sure the file starts
with ASCII "DK" (44, 4B, I think).

An ideal next step would be to burn it into an EPROM and see if it works on
a real CoCo 3.

Art

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Steven Wallis <stevenw890 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes ADOS 3 (the original and one with my customizations) works fine when
> run directly from BASIC and also when renamed to DISK11.ROM in MESS/MAME.
> I was careful when using the customizing program not to make any mistakes.
>
> When I try Extended ADOS 3 with VCC 1.42 & VCC 2.0.1b
> the startup message is fine and entering the Date, but then after a few
> seconds things get screwy like the text going from true lowercase to black
> on green, and it starts displaying @ symbols over and over.
>
> If the startup message works in VCC it should work in MESS/MAME too.
> Anyways I don't care about using VCC until it is more mature, I just want
> to use MESS/MAME.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>
> > I would first check if the (Un-Extended) ADOS-3 file works okay, which
> can
> > be run from RAM.  You should be able to run that from the ADOS-3 disk
> with
> > RUN"ADOS3".  (You might have to change the filename;  it's been a very
> long
> > time...)
> >
> > I would also check the customizing programs to make sure that things are
> > terminated properly, like the startup message.  If there's no final
> quote,
> > or whatever it's supposed to end with, screwy things like that will
> happen.
> >
> > Art
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Steven Wallis <stevenw890 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know how to get the Color Computer 3 "Extended ADOS 3"
> > working?
> > > Here are the steps I have done, but it isn't working properly yet.
> > >
> > > I'm using MESSUI64 1.87 from www.progettosnaps.net/messui/
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. From the "ADOS 3" disk RUN"CUSTOMIZ.BAS", save your ADOS file as
> > > MYFILE.BIN
> > >
> > > 2. Copy MYFILE.BIN file to the "Extended ADOS 3" disk.
> > >
> > > 3. Run "ECUST.BAS", use default settings and save it (it will use
> > > EPROM.BIN).
> > >
> > > 4. Copy EPROM.BIN from the .DSK image to a hard drive folder.
> > >
> > > 5. Edit EPRON.BIN, remove the first 5 bytes and the last 5 bytes, save
> > it.
> > > So it is now 16,384 Bytes.
> > >
> > > 6. Copy EPROM.BIN into \MESS\Roms
> > >
> > > 7. I used HashMyFiles.zip to find the EPROM.BIN hashes.
> > >     www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html
> > >
> > > 8. Edit \MESS\Hash\coco_cart.xml and add these lines near the end:
> > >      <software name="extendedados3">
> > >           <description>ADOS 3 Extended 1</description>
> > >           <year>1989</year>
> > >           <publisher>SpectroSystems</publisher>
> > >           <info name="developer" value="SpectroSystems" />
> > >           <info name="author" value="Arthur J. Flexser" />
> > >           <info name="serial" value="26-9991" />
> > >           <part name="cart" interface="coco_cart">
> > >                <dataarea name="rom" size="16384">
> > >                     <rom name="EPROM.BIN" size="16384" crc="7f0edf28"
> > > sha1="6ca61e29c136ec8201492ca7f9eb050912f3582d" offset="0" />
> > >                </dataarea>
> > >           </part>
> > >      </software>
> > >
> > > 9. Run MESSUI64, load EPROM.BIN into the Cartridge slot.
> > >
> > > 10. Start Color Computer 3 emulation.
> > >
> > >
> > > It starts up but it is screwy. Instead of the startup message, I get 8
> > > graphics characters; then the cursor shows up.
> > > Only some of the Ctrl keys seem to work. Key repeat works. The new DOS
> > > commands work.
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance!
> > >
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