[Coco] vcc and WIDTH command when using HDB-DOS

[didier derny]

It's newbie question, I'm just starting with the coco..

I've just found the rom in vcc distribution 

With this rom I got it to work correctly in one case
And not in the second case

I don’t have a multipack with my real coco  (coco2/coco3)
So in vcc I did:
- eject cart mpi
- Load Cart [with hbdos rom]

In that case WIDTH fails

If do: FD502 Config / External Rom Image  (set the path to the rom)
In that case WIDTH works


I also tried:
- eject cart mpi
- load cart [with fd502]
- configure rom in fd502 config

WIDTH 4O or 80 also works


I was trying to configure VCC to something similar to my real hardware
[bare coco2 / coco3 with just a cartridge containing hbdos rom]

Btw: I love the coco, and I'm slowly progressing...
     I started with Basic + dos 
     I'll try OS9 later
     I would like to try flex too (not sure flex works with drivewire)

Thanks to all for your advices 
  

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De la part de Nick Marentes
Envoyé : samedi 25 octobre 2014 23:36
À : Bill Pierce; CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Objet : Re: [Coco] vcc and WIDTH command when using HDB-DOS

On 26/10/2014 7:18 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>
> Didier, there are already roms in the Vcc directory if you downloaded
Vcc1.4.3b. There's no need to use the roms from Cloud9. Those are old and
un-updated. The ones in Vcc are newer,, and the ones from ToolShed are even
newer.
> You should find 2 roms in the Vcc package...
> hdbdw4bc3.rom - This is the normal hdbdos Coco3/Becker rom 
> hdbdw3bck.rom - This is the hdbdos Coco 3 rom without the speedup poke 
> for playing Coco2/clock based games
>   
>

Poor Didier is having so many problems.

Now that there are so many versions of things as we try to make everything
work under every possible combination of hardware and software setup (and
this keeps growing), should there be a better documented download site for
making it easier for the not-so-expert-user to find what he needs?

I must admit, I look at all the versions of files and I get confused. I have
to resort to trying something and if that doesn't work, try my next best
educated guess. It all seems to get so unnessarily complex.

Then again, I'm a stickler of the "keep it simple"  ideaology (or I'm 
exceedingly dumb!).    :)

Nick



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