[Coco] XRoar and Color

[Allen Huffman]

> On Apr 1, 2024, at 8:04 PM, phil pt via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> 1. How do you setup XRoar to run the NitroOs9 & Coco roms?

You can boot in to a CoCo with Disk BASIC, and then mount one of the 40 track double sided disk images for NitrOS-9 and “DOS” to boot. Actually, I think you could use the 80 track disk image as well.

> 2. Does XRoar have the original RS232 Pack Rom?

I do not think XRoar emulates the Deluxe RS232 Pak. It also does not really emulate the Serial I/O bitbanger port — only enough to make ROM calls like PRINT#-2 or LLIST output thru it to a text file, if you configure it as such.

> 3. Does the RS232 Pack support the original memory address to Send/Receive
> Data, Check if data has been received in the buffer and check if Carrier
> detect is true or false?

See above :(
Looks like Xroar does not emulate the hardware serial port of the Dragon computer, either.

		— A