[Coco] vcc info

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi, 

The "OWNER" of the VCC emulator has posted here, but not in a while. 

The author was paid by the "OWNER" of VCC to write the emulator and when the "OWNER" canceled the larger project the emulator work was stopped. 

Due to the requirements and skills needed to continue development are so much different than the skills of people here I have yet to even consider telling the "OWNER" that we might have a candidate to work on VCC. I am just a user but I traced back in old [CoCo] messages what IMHO the "OWNER" would require to allow someone to work on it.

There are additional pieces of documentation here:

 http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=18

 http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=132#p132

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Ross" <jrosslist at outlook.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] vcc info


> The only one I have tried so far is VCC – I plan on trying MESS and others as I find time. I am running VCC 1.4.2 and in the install directory there is the “Welcome to Vcc.pdf” document. Presumably that is the only official documentation. 
> 
> I spent some time trying to find information on VCC, but I have been unable to find much more information other than this page here:
> 
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/VCC_1.4.3b_and_DW4_Installation_Guide
> 
> which is specific to this “new” updated version for use w/ DriverWire4. (which I haven't tried yet, but plan too)
> 
> The introduction section, touches on the history of VCC and talks about the current state of the source code. It’s like a mystery as to what happened to the original author and who currently has the source code. Since there is no one supporting it “officially”, and apparently whoever has the source is not going to open source it, unless the original author can be contacted, even though according to the article that is/was the wishes of the original author... the outlook looks bleak for much community support for it.
> 
> Which probably explains why there is NOT much information on this emulator – which by the way is a really nice one. The original author did a great job on it. Out of curiosity, does anyone on this list know the official “status” or fate of VCC? Will there be any more improvements? Will it ever get opened sourced? 
> 
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>> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 20:31:28 +0000
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: [Coco] vcc info
>> From: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> CC: allencoco at yahoo.com
>>
>> hi guys
>> is there a manual for vcc
>> does anyone know how to keep the directory from flying by when u do a dir
>> is there any keyboard layout the tell u what each key on the pc does
>> how do u use joysticks on vcc
>> is vcc the best or is there something better
>> thanks guys
>> oh also has anyone looked at my disk images ive been posting are they working ok