[Coco] Coco 3 emulator and Linux

[Keith Clark]

On 12-07-10 11:57 AM, Andrew wrote:
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:39:18 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Robert GIbons <rgibons at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco 3 emulator and Linux
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Message-ID: <loom.20120709T163537-733 at post.gmane.org>
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>> Keith Clark <keithclark at ...> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> On 12-07-07 07:51 AM, Robert Gault wrote:
>>>> Keith Clark wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to setup Jeff Vavasour's CoCo 3 emulator using Ubuntu and
>>>>> DosBox and I have tried with both the ROMs and the OS-9 patch but I
>>>>> still get the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> No Colour Computer 3 ROM files found in the default path.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Keith
>>>>>
>>
>>
>> I use VCC under wine and it works well out of the box.
>> Currently using wine 1.5.3 and VCC 1.42 on Fedora 17
>> http://www.coco4.com/vcc/download.shtml
>
> That does work well - I just set it up on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS box with 
> the version of Wine that it comes with (1.2.2); it seems to work fine 
> (sound is a little off, though).
>
> I haven't tried JV's emulator under DOSBox yet (a long time ago I 
> built an actual DOS machine just for running JV's and other emulators; 
> that worked very well).
>
> -- Andrew
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I am trying VCC right now with VCC 1.42/Ubuntu 12.04/Wine 1.4 and it 
crashes just after displaying the Coco Basic version message. Cursor 
blinks for about 5 seconds and then freezes solid.