[Coco] XRoar Windows 8 64-Bit

[Bill Pierce]

Luis,
Look in the PDF manual and find the proper names expected for the roms and rename them. I had to do this. Then just use "-machine cocous"  It will find the roms. Then if you want to use drivewire and the becker port, follow the above with "-cart-becker -becker-ip xxx.xxx.x.x -becker-port xxxxx". You'll need the hdbdw3bck.rom which is the Coco 2 HDBDOS rom for Becker port.
Then run Drivewire and set the sam ports. This will give you a Coco 2 64k with HDBDOS and Drivewire.
The Mac and Linux versions have a GUI (menu bar) at the top of the screen. If you want the GUI so you have a menu bar for all the options in Windows, email me and I'l explain how to do it and where to get the files. You'll have to run the 32 bit version but I haven't seen any problems with on a 64 bit machine.

Bill P

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-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 9, 2013 5:13 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] XRoar Windows 8 64-Bit


OK the new driver fixed the black screen problem, now to get it to load a
rom image.

I am using the following command:

c:\xroar\>xroar - machine cocous -bas bas10.rom



On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It works with the -vo sdl command line option, so I am guessing it the the
> OPEN GL driver... hmmm   the computer had one of those ATI processors with
> the video processor built into the processor.  I am downloading the latest
> driver know.  hopefully that fixes it.
>
> Next question, I have the rom image in the VROAR directory, but it showed
> the checker board screen.  The rom image is called BAS11.ROM.  Am I missing
> something else?
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk>wrote:
>
>> Bill Pierce wrote:
>> > Ciaran told me he only cross-assembled the Windows binaries and relied
>> on
>> > others for reports as he doesn't have a Windows machine. He runs a Mac.
>>
>> Hey now that's just insulting!  But, sadly, true...  Circumstances have
>> made it that what I use most is a mac, with its awful space-wasting UI.
>> ;)
>>
>> > The black screen sounds odd because if all else fails and XRoar starts
>> in
>> > "no rom" mode, it will display a "checker board" (green/red) screen much
>> > like you use to see after crashing  a Coco 2 ML game.
>>
>> True, which says to me the video isn't working at all - the default is
>> to use OpenGL - maybe that's the problem?  You could try running it with
>> "-vo sdl" - if you get a small unscalable (but working) output there,
>> it might well be that (in which case, check your OpenGL drivers?).
>>
>> ..ciaran
>>
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