[Coco] Keil under VMWARE or better suggestion

[Mark McDougall]

Hi all,

Ultimately I want to install Nitros9 L1 on my CF for playing around on my 
HDBDOS-enabled Coco1/2 FPGA implementation.

But before I attempt to get that far, I thought I'd better get it running 
under an emulator on windows first...

I tried running Keil on my 64-bit Windows 7 and of course it doesn't run. So 
I fired up VMWARE with 32-bit WinXP and have had no luck at all running it 
there either.

The Coco1 version of the emulator doesn't respond to <F4> or <F5> but will 
respond to <F10> etc. Can't explain that one at all.

The Coco2 version of the emulator responds to <F4> but refuses to list any 
files at all in the ROM file selector screen, so I can't even insert the 
disk controller cartridge into the MPI!?! It's a conspiracy!!!

I've just had zero luck tonight and I'm over it all.

Anyone successfully run L1 on a Coco1/2 emulator under Windows 7 64-bit? If 
so, which emulator did you use? Is MESS up to the task?

Also on another note: is there any way to grab the Nitros9 source without 
installing Mercurial?

TIA,
Regards,

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|              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it
|  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug>   |   with less resistance!"