[Coco] Mess is a mess.... again....

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:32:09 -0500
Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Christopher, where did you download your version 170?
>  I downloaded mine from the mame github site and the gui version from
> "The Mess Place". Both have the quad density drives setup. Also, I'm
> using the "CC3HDB1" ext (for becker port), and the drive only gives
> the "Qd" option.

http://mamedev.org/release.html I compile it on Slakware and Raspbian.

> Another thing I've noticed in almost every version I've downloaded
> for the past two years is that in the "Natural" keyboard the arrow
> keys are locked out. This seems to have something to do with them
> being setup for joystick emulation or something, but I can't find any
> setting to unlock them (tried the input mapping). They seem to work
> in "Emulated" but I hate that keyboard (maybe I need to remap this
> one). I even use an AT keyboard on my real Coco so I'm in no way
> familiar with the old Coco layout anymore. In OS9 C, I need to get to
> "[ ] { } \ |" and I can never remember the odd key combinations for
> them.

    I've got a patch for the arrow keys in 0.153. I haven't had a chance
to add my patches to 0.170 yet. They include only building the
coco/dragon stuff and bypassing the ROM checks so I can use HDBDOS with
ease.

> They seemed to have finally straightened out the timing in 1.70. Back
> in the 15x releases, there was a delay on the key reads and the video
> was jerky (scrolling). I couldn't set anything that would get rid of
> it. That seems to be gone. The Becker port seems to be working better
> now as well, but I haven't tested it extensively (seems a little
> slow).
> 
> I actually like the way this version runs if I can get rid of those
> "5.25 Quad Density Floppy Drives" and fix the arrow keys in the
> "Natural" keyboard setting.
> 
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> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2016 7:58 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Mess is a mess.... again....
> 
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:18:50 +1100Mark McDougall
> <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:> On 24/02/2016 2:22 PM, Bill Pierce
> via Coco wrote:> > > What I can't> > understand is that it's been
> like this since before v1.56 (now 1.70)> > and no one has noticed
> it ????> > As I mentioned, v0.166 works for me with DSK images.> >
> Regards,>     And v0.170 works for me with all the DSK images I can
> find...Christopher R. HawksHAWKSoft-- "You're now a frishlingman of
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