[Coco] Known VCC bugs

[Stephen Fischer]

I found that my HDIRECT program, fixed and improved from the Rainbow May 
1985 issue will hang when "/P" is loaded and VCC is set up to capture 
the text right on the first line. The very first time I tried it hung.

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Rainbow%2C%20The%20%28Searchable%20image%29/The%20Rainbow%20Vol.%2004%20No.%2010%20-%20May%201985.pdf

Robert Gualt while helping me with one of my old boot disks and HDIRECT 
found the same problem just ~ about a week ago.

I cannot say if the problem is with VCC, OS-9 and or NitrOS-9 as I have 
seen the problem with many runs of VCC using various versions of both 
VCC and an OS.

The HDIRECT program and the shell script to load "/P" is named p.s. is 
on SHF888.dsk (ZIP) on my Webspace: ("p.s" will only work if the "/P" 
descriptor is in the image of NitrOS-9 on the VHD)

http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/

hdirect                                        91/03/05 12:21       836
p.s                                            12/04/29 14:27        5D

The source for HDIRECT is in my online DoomsDay files set and as soon as 
I get the MB replaced on my backup HTPC I will be working on HDIRECT to 
bring it into the present century and fix other bugs (Huge VHD) and 
adding LHA support if possible.

I have ~ 250 disks to process with HDIRECT so it would be great if this 
problem was solved.

Sample output of HDIRECT is attached.

SHF

On 4/11/2018 4:01 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Hello all...
> I am trying to gather a list of all known bugs in VCC. Also a list of software that does not run properly in VCC that should run on a Coco3 (not Coco2 games that don't run on a real Coco3).
> This includes any missing instructions, bad timing, etc, etc.
> Please reply in this thread so I can keep it together and make a list.
> 
> And no... this is not a discussion of which emulator is better or a "wish list" for new features. We want to fix the current stuff first!
> 
> Thanks :-)
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> Bill Pierce
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