[Coco] mess newbie

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 08:47:22 EST 2015


The HALT line is the CPU. Replace it, but it may require desoldering.

The one with cart problem you need to track down every cartridge trace to
check for broken solder.


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:59 AM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Camillus Blockx <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, David,
> >
> > Any chance of you selling one ofyour bad cc3, I could usea spare?
> >
>
> The CoCo2 is actually the one with the bad HALT line.  The one CoCo3 that
> isn't working is currently having issues with the cart slot and can't trace
> the problem, but that one was given to me by a friend who is now dead.  So
> it has sentimental value and I sadly don't want to part with it even though
> it is broken.​
>
> The one that has the bad keyboard I had just recently installed a spare AT
> keyboard interface I had been sitting on from Cloud9.  That is the one that
> is currently has my 6309 in it.  The one CoCo3 that has all original radio
> shack parts including the 512K upgrade board is currently my most used
> CoCo3 which is where I have been doing most of my testing with the
> deblocked ide boot module. Muahahahah
>
>
>
> >
> > cb
> > On 2/12/2015 3:44:36 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 12, 2015 3:38 PM, wrote:
> > >
> > > I hope folks won’t get their knickers in a bind for sharing these ROMs
> > for Mess.
> >
> > That's why I don't share ROM's :D
> > That's why I have made my ROM's from the real systems I legally have
> > sitting at home :D
> > I have my old coco2 logic board in a drawer with the ROM's still in it, I
> > have a CoCo2B, and I have 3 CoCo3's which one of which has a bad HALT
> line
> > and another that has a bad keyboard.
> >
> > So I myself think I am covered for being legal.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I use Mess64 with a nice UI - place these ROMs in the CFG folder and
> then
> > run and voila’
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent from Windows Mail
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: David Ladd
> > > Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎February‎ ‎12‎, ‎2015 ‎4‎:‎27‎ ‎PM
> > > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Feb 12, 2015 3:16 PM, "Nick Marentes" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 13/02/2015 7:08 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> You must download the rom for the version of the mess.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > To save me downloading multiple ROM versions and blindly dumping them
> > > into MESS to see if they work, can you point me to which CoCo3 ROM is
> > > compatible with MESS 158?
> > >
> > > I personally don't think this is actually a big deal. I have used the
> > same
> > > coco3.zip file for the last fear years. I actually created the zip file
> > > from the ROM dumps I made back when I was using Jeff Vavasours CoCo3
> > > emulator for DOS.
> > >
> > > The coco3.zip contains two ROM's in it. coco3.rom and disk11.rom
> > >
> > > That's one of the reasons why you should just be able to do a google
> > search
> > > on mess coco3.zip and you should be able to find the right zip file.
> Like
> > > I said I have been using the same zip file for years with all the
> > versions
> > > of MESS.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > (This is another reason I like VCC, integrated CoCo3 ROM)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > > >
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> > Also a side note, I am not sure if we are allowed to post files to the
> list
> > and if the files might be something that could be illegal for sure don't
> > send it to the list.
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