[Coco] Mame Scroll Key is not working

[phil pt]

I m using the current version of mame and the files are not zipped. Cn you
can zip up your mame directory so I can try and see if I can get it to work
please?

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 4:18 PM Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Phil,
>
> What version of MAME are you using? I looks more recent than anything I
> can run on my system. At
> least I have only seen directories coco3 and coco3p not coco3ntsc.
>
> In any case, you don't want .zip files in the coco3ntsc directory. There
> should be .rom files there.
> The .zip files should be in the MAME\roms directory.
>
> If you are having problems with either your mouse or arrow keys on the PC
> such that MAME is not
> responding, you may not have a MAME version that will run on your PC.
>
> Robert
>
> phil pt wrote:
> > The scroll key is not working in to insert the rom
> >
> > to CoCoList
> > Phil,
> >
> > MAME uses RGBDOS rather than HDBDOS but you don't need a separate
> directory
> > for the ROM. You still
> > want  MAME/roms/coco3  as the directory but will replace disk11.rom with
> > rgbdos.rom.
> >
> > Now it is not quite that simple as MAME has a list of CRC's of cartridges
> > it accepts. With the
> > latest versions of MAME, you will keep disk11.rom in the ROM directory
> but
> > add rgbdos.rom. From the
> > coco3 menu accessed with Scroll Lock and Tab, via File Manager.
> > You can also set things up with a mame.bat file.
> >
> > Once more, it is much much easier if you have a Windows system to use
> > MAMEUI or MESSUI
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ><snip>
> > c:\Users\plt\MAME>
> >
> >
> > 04/24/2020  10:27 PM    <DIR>          .
> > 04/24/2020  10:27 PM    <DIR>          ..
> > 04/24/2020  09:55 PM    <DIR>          coco3
> > 04/24/2020  10:27 PM    <DIR>          coco3ntsc
> > 04/15/2020  01:47 PM            30,306 coco3p.zip
> > 04/24/2020  05:00 PM             6,974 coco3_hdb1.zip
> > 04/24/2020  09:55 PM             3,637 coco_rs232(2).zip
> > 04/24/2020  04:56 PM    <DIR>          OLD
> >                 3 File(s)         40,917 bytes
> >                 5 Dir(s)  762,907,549,696 bytes free
> >
> > c:\Users\plt\MAME\roms>
> >
> > 04/24/2020  10:27 PM    <DIR>          .
> > 04/24/2020  10:27 PM    <DIR>          ..
> > 04/24/2020  09:55 PM    <DIR>          coco3
> > 04/24/2020  10:27 PM    <DIR>          coco3ntsc
> > 04/15/2020  01:47 PM            30,306 coco3p.zip
> > 04/24/2020  05:00 PM             6,974 coco3_hdb1.zip
> > 04/24/2020  09:55 PM             3,637 coco_rs232(2).zip
> > 04/24/2020  04:56 PM    <DIR>          OLD
> >                 3 File(s)         40,917 bytes
> >                 5 Dir(s)  762,907,549,696 bytes free
> >
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