[Coco] COCO to PC transfer and Using VCC

[Allan Chaney]

COCO Folks,

At the request of my kids, I recently unpacked my old Color Computer 3 after
almost 20 years of deep storage.  I had mentioned to them that I programmed
a video game that was published and they wanted to play it.  Unbelievably
after unpacking and cleaning everything the game still worked along with the
COCO3, Floppy Drive and Multi-Pack.

The game I wrote is called "Paladin's Legacy" and it was published by Sundog
Systems in 1989. It is an RPG adventure/action game for COCO I,I and III
with 64k and floppy drive.  I would like to preserve and run the game in a
modern PC system using VCC Emulator.  After reading about VCC at
vcc6809.bravehost.com, if I understand correctly, I should be able to run my
game on my Windows XP PC with VCC.  VCC will create a virtual disk that
handles the floppy disk access from my game. However my problem is getting
my game files transferred to a windows PC from the COCO.  The files that
make up my game are almost all Binary (.bin) with a few basic files.  I also
still have the source files (.asc).  I don't have a PC with 5.25 floppy so I
am unable to use VCC to read the old Tandy Floppy Drive (assuming that that
is even possible).

I visited www.thesvd.com  and found a product called SVD (Semi-Virtual Disk)
that will copy images of files/floppies from an old COCO to a modern Windows
PC over RS232 (or in my case a usb-RS232 converter).  I don't have a PC with
RS232 but apparently I can use a USB-RS232 converter.  

My real question is if I buy SVD and copy the images of my game disks to my
PC, do you think VCC will run my game?  The game uses a lot of disk access
since it's a two sided RPG.  The game requires you to flip the disk when you
enter cities and then flip back when you go back to the main world map.

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

Allan


Allan Chaney
Woodcraft Stores 539 and 548
AC Woodworks Inc. dba Woodcraft
Corp PH#: 918-298-6948
Corp Fax#: 918-299-6941
Corp E-mail: chaneya at acwoodworksinc.com