[Coco] VCC direct VHD vs DW

[Walter Zambotti]

Thanks for all the responses.

I can see the benefits especially if the setup is with a real Coco. There would be no other way access a vhd. Not without copying the VHD to real media like an SD card. 

And on an emulator DW would allow access to multiple HDDS.

But if my main drive is already a VHD accessed with VCC am I better off using it directly or via DW?  For performance reasons for instance. 

I have mine setup with primary VHD via VCC harddrive and all subsequent VHDS via DW.

DW as far as I can figure out does not allow network access to the hosts file system like samba or NFS.

Incidentally I tried the telnet which worked well.

Walter 

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---- James Ross wrote ----

>Robert Gault wrote: 
>> I've not seen anyone in this thread mention using the F11 key.
>> That makes the VCC screen the size of your monitor. 
>
>Yes ... that is the mode I call "full-screen", I've seen that mode referred to as “maximized” -- but it’s really not. The maximized mode of VCC is when you hit the maximize button in the top-right corner of the window.  The maximized VCC window then fills the screen but keeps the Window border / title / the status bar + Windows taskbar below it. All remain visible. 
>
>Both modes "full-screen" OR “maximized” are stretched out and don’t look right on a wide-screen monitor (bothers some people more than others). 
>
>MAME does not have this problem. 
>
>On a widescreen monitor w/ my recent fix to the VCC aspect ratio  works in maximized mode only. NOT the full-screen (F11) mode.  That is because it's two different modes of DirectX’s DirectDraw mode. The aspect ratio of the full-screen (F11) mode, will never get fixed (since, it would take a complete rewrite of the VCC rendering mode).  But what I hope to do, is make the full-screen mode continue to really be the windowed, maximize mode, but remove the visibility of the border / title / status bar and cover the taskbar, and still remain the proper aspect ratio. 
>
>James
>
>> ... snip ...
>> The real value of using DW with VCC, MESS, or a real Coco is not different drives. 
>
>Unless you don't have the CoCoSDC -- then it works to replace real drives!! but almost everyone has a CoCoSDC or two! 
>
>> It is the Internet, MIDI, or Printer access you obtain via Drivewire.
>
>Which is cool, BTW! 
>
>James
>
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