[Coco] Run .BIN directly in Coco3 emulator?

[Richard Goedeken]

I don't know of any way to do exactly what you're asking for.  If you built a
cartridge image then you could run that via the '-cart' option in MESS, but I
don't know of any way to start up with a generic .bin file.  This feature is
common in C64 and +4 emus though.  Probably because it's a bigger pain to get
a directory listing and launch a program on these machines.  For my
development work, I use this file2dsk program to generate a DSK image as a
makefile step.  Here is the webpage for this utility:

http://www.chipple.net/coco/file2dsk/

This thing is pretty rough; I had to fix a few bugs to make it play nicely
with my workflow.  I can send you my modified source code if you like.

Richard

On 04/11/2014 07:28 AM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to run a .BIN file directly in a Coco3 emulator running
> under Windows 7. Ideally from the command-line. Ideally without requiring DSK
> files.
> 
> Is there any way to do this?
> 
> FTR I'm looking for a scriptable way to launch a .BIN file during development;
> ie. I want to do this hundreds if not thousands of times over the course of
> the next few months.
> 
> FWIW I used to use Portal-9 which could do this via DSK files but it's lost
> its registration key and I'm using a different assembler in any case; so I
> don't think that's an option even if I could get my registration key restored...
> 
> TIA
> Regards,
>