[Coco] Coco 3 emulator and Linux

[Andrew]

Keith,

I'm not an expert on Wine; but if I experienced this, I would probably 
first try running the application (VCC) from the command line with Wine 
to see if any error messages appeared when it crashed. I would also 
check the various log files in Ubuntu (keep the Log File Viewer open and 
running while to try, just to see if/where the messages pop up when it 
crashes). I would also look and see if Wine itself has any logging of 
its own (I don't know if it does, but I would think it would).

I forgot to mention that I am also running 64-bit on an Intel processor 
(with an nVidia chipset, IIRC), and I probably have the Intel 32-bit 
wrapper/extensions installed too (not sure if any of that would make a 
difference; I've had this system so long and so many "extras" and such 
are on it - not all from "canonical" sources, that it's become a bit of 
a "frankenbox"). My vidcard is also nVidia.

Do other programs under Wine work ok for you? I guess what I am getting 
at is whether you installed Wine just for VCC, or if you have used it 
for other things in the past and everything was ok (I've got a few 
things on mine; EagleCAD, Google Sketchup, and VCC)...

That's about all the help I can give (and to be honest, I don't know if 
VCC is completely stable; I've only scratched the surface of it; I don't 
really like using Wine for anything if I can avoid it).

Andrew L. Ayers
Glendale, Arizona

> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:49:18 -0400
> From: Keith Clark <keithclark at waterloosubstop.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco 3 emulator and Linux
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
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> I am trying VCC right now with VCC 1.42/Ubuntu 12.04/Wine 1.4 and it
> crashes just after displaying the Coco Basic version message. Cursor
> blinks for about 5 seconds and then freezes solid.