[Coco] Help with Jeff V. Coco3 dos emulator

[Bill Pierce]

I almost had the JV Coco 3 running in 2meg on either vmwre player or Oracle's vbox, don't remember. Then I changed something in one of the configs and lost it. I haven't messed with it since.
I have David Keil's emulators running in vbox I think. Since David is still active in the Coco community, he should do some updating and make his Vista, 7 & 8 compatable. It really has a nice interface. It's a shame to see them all fall into antiquity.

And yes, Jeff's emu's don't follow his own disk spec. I think the disk spec was actually developed for his Model I, III, & IV emulators.
The best way to create disks for his emus is to create thm with his software and copy the files to the disk from the PC.

Neither JV nor DK Coco 3 emulators run as smooth as Vcc though. I'm still leary of Mess, though it's debugger gives it an edge when developing or debugging. I just don't like the whole interface. I'm spoiled with Vcc... besides, I need DW4 and the Becker port wins again :-)


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 31, 2014 12:47 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Help with Jeff V. Coco3 dos emulator


Bill Pierce wrote:

> As for the disk formt and access, I do remember having problems with some 
disks and having to copy them to others but I don't remembe the issues. You 
could check the sources to 1.17 and see what causes the issues I'm sure.
>

I just got a copy of the version on Jeff's site. Not sure about those version 
numbers but when it starts, the screen says v1.6B freeware. It also does not 
support Jeff's header format.
The source files in that language are beyond me. :(

> I can run the Coco 2 and 128k Coco 3 in DosBox, but cannot get the 512k, 1, 2, 
& 16 Meg features to run in such due to DosBox's not having EMS memory support. 
I may have an older system going soon in MSDOS and may be pulling these old 
emulators out again :-)
>

Likewise. I am using D-Fend Reloaded to start DOSBox and it is set for 63Meg 
with XMS, EMS, and UMB but still can't get more than 128k. There does not seem 
to be any method for making DOSBox use the 2MEGS file.

> BTW... Does anyone know what happened to John Collyer? He's another one that 
"just disappeared" on us.
>
>
> Bill Pierce


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