[Coco] Emulating a 1980 4K CoCo on PC

[Bill Nobel]

I’ve got Mess on PC, SDLMess on Mac both do the rom no problem, But can’t force them down to 4k.

Bill Nobel

> On Dec 30, 2014, at 9:00 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I think we need a CoCo 1/2 emulator that is easy to use and complete.
> 
> How's MESS?
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> On 31/12/2014 12:58 PM, Bill Nobel wrote:
>> Yeah I get the same on my Macbook Pro.  I installed XRoar, and placed rom and xroar.config into ~/Library/XRoar.  It reports Coco 4K but no boot.
>> 
>> Bill Nobel
>> 
>>> On Dec 30, 2014, at 8:22 PM, Jerry Cantrill <jwcantrill at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> this is mostly directed to Allen, but feel free to chime in if you have seen this before.
>>> 
>>> i am pretty sure i have followed the instructions to install XRoar on my laptop. and have placed files bas10.rom and xroar.conf (as from your instructions) in the same folder as each of the 32k and 64k flavors of version 0.32.
>>> 
>>> though the drop down machine menu shows an new entry called Tandy CoCo 4K which is selected and even the keyboard map is coco layout.
>>> 
>>> the stderr file shows...
>>> Loading ROM: ./bas10.rom
>>>    BASIC CRC = 0x7d1f9515
>>> 
>>> however all i get is a "checkerboard" with 2 rows of 8 columns, with no cursor flashes.
>>> 
>>> any ideas?
>>> 
>>> -thanks, jerry
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