[Coco] VCC v1.42 Question

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Sat Feb 14 14:32:51 EST 2015


Also, Disk Basic's disk I/O routines need to be modified with some extra
delays to work properly at double speed, so you shouldn't expect that your
Color Forth will work properly unless you slow down for disk operations.

Art

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have VCC version 1.42 running on my MacBook Pro, under Parallels running
> Windows XP SP3.
>
> I have not used it a whole lot, but it seems to work fine in general.
>
> Recently, I tried out my new Color Forth as modified for DECB, to be sure
> that it worked as it does on my real physical CoCo 3 system.  Everything
> works as I expected.
>
> I noticed that VCC reports that it is running a 6809 CPU at 0.89 MHz.  I
> have tried and tried to get the Config to set the CoCo to 1.788 MHz, but I
> cannot get that to happen.  I can go to the Display portion of Config and
> uncheck the “Throttle Speed” checkbox and get the emulation to go a super
> speed, but all I want to do is emulate my physical CoCo 3 which is running
> at double speed with an HDBDOS cartridge.
>
> What am I missing?  Is there something else that I have to do to get the
> overclocking to work properly?
>
> Thanks, in advance, for your patience and attention.
>
> smp
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