[Coco] REAL dumb question

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

If all that you want to do is look at .dsk files, then Jeff's MSDOS 16 Bit
CoCo2 emulator would work just fine. (Dosbox or similar perhaps needed,
there are many solutions.)

Windows XP Cmd.exe works if I remember correctly. "Vista" is NO GO!

ftp://www.rtsi.com/RSDOS/incoming/Coco2%20Emulator.zip

But I just open "dsk files most often in WordPad (Not Notepad) and look for
readable text strings. (Vista)  (There are tools that do this better.)

SHF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Little John" <sales at gimechip.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] REAL dumb question


>I have been having a similar problem with the current Vcc - it works
>mostly, but then sometimes just disappears. It doesn't appear to crash or
>shut down - it just vanishes, I may be wrong but it seems to have something
>to do with the bitbanger capture feature, but that's an uneducated guess
>and probably blatantly wrong...
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "C.W." <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
> To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] REAL dumb question
>
>
>> Actually, VCC (coco2 and coco3) is kicking my butt. I've tried everything
>> I
>> know, including re-installing it (twice), and the only thing that happens
>> when I try to do ANYTHING is that it just goes back to windows. I'm gonna
>> try MESS and see if that's better (if it does ANYTHING, it'll be better)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe
>> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:01 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] REAL dumb question
>>
>> For me, easiest and best are two different answers.  VCC is easy, MESS
>> is best :)  I prefer MESS for many reasons, primarily because it's
>> open source so I can see how it works and make changes if I want to.
>> That may be of no value to other people.
>>
>> If you just want to try out some disks, VCC will be simpler.
>>
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