[Coco] Announcing the Color Computer Starter Kits (MS-DOS)

[Bill Pierce]

David, In later revisions of Jeff Vavasour's Coco 3 emulator v1.6 (most of the ones available), Jeff provides access to the outside world through control codes (I think). Someone with some MASM savey should be able to alter the sources (available on Jeff's site as well as the Color Computer Archives) and implement the TCP rerouting. The sources are available for both the Coco 2 and Coco 3 emulators. This is how John Collyer did the 6309 port along with some other enhancements.
There is documentation on how to access oustside the emulator in the "whatsnew.txt" in the Coco3 zip file. He also did an experimental version 1.7 that includes extensions for 16 meg memory, 640x480 16 colors, 320x200 256 colors, full PC keyboard access, and more extended 80x86 instructions added. All of this is documented in the v1.7 "readme.txt" included in the v1.6 source zip. The v1.7 sources and text file are in the v1.6 source zip in a folder named "VER17".

There was great potential for what he added to v1.7, but the newer Windows machines made it unusable to many and it was forgotten. Jeff's site is still up and all files available:

http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html

Too bad Jeff got too busy with the gaming business to continue with the emulators.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Ladd <dladd at realmspire.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, May 20, 2014 12:24 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Announcing the Color Computer Starter Kits (MS-DOS)


Well the MSDOS idea is possible.  You might have to customize Jeff
Vavasours emulator.  Might be possible using the DOS packet drivers that
some companies still provide for their network chips.  Would be one way to
get the becker port anyway.

Another possible idea with Jeff Vavasours emulator is trying to add a
serial port code that would redirect the PC's real serial port to the
becker port addresses.

My 2 cents would be that old desktop 486's would still use a lot of power
for what you get out of the system to just run a emulator.  Would be better
to actually run the real CoCo or get a older notebook that would use less
electricity to run a emulator on.

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David Ladd

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