[Coco] VCC is a Windows program Re: VCC + wish list

[mike delyea]

Hmmm, I might try that with Puppy Linux and Wine on a USB stick.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:16 PM, John Donaldson
<johnadonaldson at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> There is a form of WinXP called "Embedded XP". It allows you to create a
> WinXP with application program that only has those elements need to run.
> Used in a lot of Point-of-Sale Terminals. Could be used to make a COCO3
> emulator that will boot direct into the emulator.
>
> John Donaldson
>
>
> Frank Swygert wrote:
>>
>> Heck, I got it mixed up with Jeff Vavasour's emulator... at least I think
>> that's the DOS based one...
>> But, with VCC I guess Windows could be stripped down to minimal
>> functionality. It's not easy, but there used to be a website on how to do
>> just that. A nice little VB menu program would then do the trick. What you'd
>> end up with is an emulator that would be similar to your "CC4" project --
>> minus the hardware side.
>> ---------
>> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:51:17 -0700
>> From: Steve Bjork <6809er at bjork-huffman.net>
>>
>> Frank,
>>
>> VCC IS a windows program and uses DirectX 8.0 or later.  That's in the
>> first line of text about the VCC on the home page.  I don't know how you
>> missed it.
>>
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