[Coco] Vcc to DriveWire

[Salvador Garcia]

Thanks Aaron!

I like Vcc, but kind of tend towards XRoar because source is available. I am curious to see how an emulator is built. I know that Vcc's author had intentions of making the source available, but apparently never finished making changes that he wanted before this happened, so I don't think that Vcc 1.43b's source is available. On the other hand, XRoar source is available and it seems its author has been working on it. The only downside to XRoar is that the emulation is limited to CoCo 1 and 2 while Vcc emulates CoCo 3. Salvador


 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, May 17, 2014 9:18 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Vcc to DriveWire


XRoar supports it, and I think someone has been working on mess.  Vcc is
probably the easiest option though.
 On May 17, 2014 10:16 PM, "Salvador Garcia" <ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net>
wrote:

> I am looking into familiarizing myself with DriveWire using an emulator. I
> downloaded and installed Vcc 143b, but am curious to know whether there is
> any other CoCo emulator that will work with DriveWire. Is there? :-) Thanks
> Salvador
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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: Sat, May 17, 2014 4:36 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Vcc to DriveWire
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> CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts wrote:
> > Ok I would like to know what I need in the boot file for Drivewire to
> VCC.  I
> have Drivewire setup for emulators, but need to know what I need to
> add/change
> in my boot file to use it.  I am using v3.3.0 Nitros9 6309 with a 60mb vhd
> and 3
> 80trk ds drives with vcc now, using rb1773 and emudsk. Also using stock
> Disk
> rom.  I am green to drive wire and would like to start using it. Any help
> would
> be appreciated.
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> > Bill Nobel
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> There are two versions of VCC and only one will work with Drivewire. You
> need
> VCC 1.43beta with Becker support which is specifically designed for use
> with
> Drivewire.
>
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Emulators/Coco%203/Vcc/Vcc_setup%201.43b%20with%20Becker%20Port%20support.zip
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> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Emulators/Coco%203/Vcc/
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> This version of VCC will come with a ROM that supports Drivewire. Now if
> you
> want to access Drivewire disks after booting from your current .vhd drive
> using
> the RGBDOS ROM, you will need to add the Drivewire driver and descriptors
> to
> your OS9Boot file or load them as a merged file after booting NitrOS-9.
> I'm not
> sure the latter will work but expect it will. The alternative is booting
> NitrOS-9 from Drivewire using a v3.3.0 disk marked Becker with emudsk
> driver and
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> descriptors added to that OS9Boot file.
>
> The disks you need are at the nightly build repository.
> http://nitros9.sourceforge.net/latest/
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> If you have problems getting things to work, you could send me direct
> email.
>
> Robert
> robert.gault at att.net
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