[Coco] Emulator Problems

[Ciaran Anscomb]

dlb via Coco wrote:
> 
> I'd like to begin using xroar but have never had any luck  Right now,
> when I boot, it goes through the boot process, showing the modules
> being processed, it gets to "i2xto" and then the screen fills with
> garbage.  Booting with mame (flatpak) it displays "i2xoC" - a little
> different than xroar. This with the same floppy and hard drive images.
> Are there any special modules that xroar needs?  I wonder about the
> difference in the i2x.. stuff? loading from the same files.

It sounds like you have XRoar built fine.  I'm not too hot on OS-9 but
the main thing to bear in mind with XRoar is the only HD interface it
supports is Glenside IDE (IO at $FF50).  If your image is configured to
use emudsk or the CoCoSDC driver it'll probably break.

Michael Furman has some tooling to set things up for IDE.  While I don't
think he's got the latest EOU in his "releases", the scripts worked for
me to IDE-ise an image pulled from the main EOU site.

https://github.com/n6il/eou_ide

You can see the result in operation here, so long as you don't mind
waiting for it to download the HD image into memory each time:

https://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/online/

Select Software -> Utils -> NitrOS-9 Ease of Use...  and wait a while.

..ciaran