[Coco] Latest Release of the VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator

[Bill Pierce]

Bill, one of the goals in the new VCC project is to eventually have a version that WILL run on Mac (& Linux) natively. So one of the objectives has been to get rid of 'hard coded' Windows path lists. The way the new version works, all file dialogs will 'start' in the same directory where VCC is installed. Once you access a file in any of the dialogs, each dialog (and file format dsk, vhd, cas, rom etc) will remember it's own path list. Once we get the cross platform stuff going, we'll (of course) have install methods for each platform. But that is still a long way off.

We actually have the code much farther along than the last release, but there are a lot of things being changed and the state the current beta is in, is just not acceptable for public release. For one thing, all parts of VCC are being 'isolated' as modules so that each can be used individually in compiling (6809, 6309, GIME, etc) . What this means is we are making it so that various components can be used to create a Coco 1, 2, 3, and possibly even a Dragon. This is one of the other goals is to make VCC eventually be able to emulate ALL Coco models.

 
Good things are coming.... eventually :-)

 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 4, 2016 1:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Latest Release of the VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator

Thanks, now I have it for BOTH my iMac and my PC. Now, I gotta figure out how and where to create a REAL directory on my Mac. The one that the hardwired program calls for does not exist. Or at least I can't find it.-----Original Message-----From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Bill Pierce via CocoSent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 1:26 PMTo: coco at maltedmedia.comCc: Bill PierceSubject: Re: [Coco] Latest Release of the VCC Color Computer 3 EmulatorBill, the latest VCC release can be found here:https://github.com/VCCE/VCC/releases -- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco