[Coco] I love VCC + wish list

[Paul Fitch]

A look on the VCC home page shows the following:

Next Versions
Add framework for External Debugger/Machine Monitor.(Chris Lomont had kindly
offered to write the DLL for this).
An RS-232 Cart.
Move RAW floppy code to is own thread to reduce emulation slowdown during
disk access.
Sound input support.

The future is looking bright.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Frank Swygert
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:16 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] I love VCC + wish list
> 
> There should be a way to use the PC RS-232 port -- on those 
> that still have them. Maybe support for a PCI card w/RS-232? 
> Supporting a USB to RS-232 adapter might be tough. 
> 
> It would be difficult to output to a PDF file. It shouldn't 
> be difficult, however, to output to a simple ASCII text file. 
> I think CoCo printers (or files?) automatically send a "line 
> feed" signal after every "carriage return", and a PC doesn't 
> (or do I have that backwards?), but that would be easy to 
> overcome. If output to a text file something simple like the 
> DOS "Edit" command could be used to display and print it. 
> 
> The best thing about VCC is it runs under DOS in my opinion. 
> Don't have to have all that Windows overhead! To simplify 
> disk/file conversions and such why not write a simple batch 
> file (remember those?) menu. Boot the computer into that, 
> then have the first selection to run VCC, others for 
> disk/file conversion and other CoCo related tasks. I tried 
> setting up an older laptop I had with DOS and VCC to be a 
> portable CoCo3, but that particular laptop (an old HP 
> Omnibook 6000) had some peculiar display chips/drivers that 
> VCC wouldn't work with. Had problems with the disk chip too. 
> 
> Now I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600E that's now "surplus" to 
> my needs. Have it up for sale at $100 (complete outfit with 
> case, internal CD burner/DVD player combo drive, external 
> floppy, two batteries, and a few extras), but no takers. The 
> only problem with it is the track-point pointer is bad, so 
> you have to use a PS/2 mouse with it. To fix the track-point 
> the whole keyboard must be replaced. Easy and cheap enough, 
> but I prefer a mouse anyway. It would display an error that 
> you had to manually go around, but I fixed that by editing a 
> bit or two in the BIOS to ignore the track-point error. Boots 
> right up. I don't really play with emulators of the CoCo much 
> any more, anyone interested in the laptop drop me a line! 
> It's old but robust, why I kept it so long! PII 366 with 
> maxed out memory (over 500MB, forget exact amount). 
> 
> ----------
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:05:48 -0400
> From: "Paul Fitch" <pfitchjr at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [Coco] I love VCC + wish list
> 
> 3) It needs serial port (rs-232 pak) and Bit-banger / printer 
> support.  
> 
> On the printer side, I would be happy if it output'd to a PDF 
> file that I
> could then send to my laser printer.    Even if the output 
> looked like an
> old style DMP dot matrix printer or my old "Gorilla Bananna". 
> 
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