[Coco] Expanding 4K Coco Mem

[Bill Pierce]

Nice Ciaran, it beats having to use the old GTK builds. I tried the machine menu configurations and they seem to be correct now.
For those using Windows, you can drop the roms and xroar.conf into the same folder as XRoar, but in Win Vista and above, you'll need to turn off UAC (user account control). Unless you have multiple users on your system or are paranoid about "PC invasion", UAC is useless for anything except locking your files and folders so even you can't access them directly.
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 2, 2015 3:52 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Expanding 4K Coco Mem


Nick Marentes wrote:
> So what's the best CLEAR xxxx,yyyy statement to use with the XROAR 
> emulator to make  it act like a 4K Color Basic computer?
> 
> I have Color Basic 1.0 running but it's set to 16K (?) and I'm having 
> trouble setting it to run with less (so many menu's don't work!).

I think I've finally nailed the menu issue.  If you fancy a bit of
bleeding-edge-ness, try the latest snapshot here (don't worry that the
32- & 64-bit version numbers differ, it's just down to when I built them):

http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/xroar/

With the following in your "xroar.conf", you should get an extra option
in the "Machines" menu (and more to the point, be able to select it):

machine coco4k
  machine-desc Tandy CoCo 4K
  machine-arch coco
  tv-type ntsc
  ram 4
  bas bas10
  noextbas
  nodos

> I'm going to have a bash but 4K Color Basic seems a bit to "VIC 20 like" 
> for my liking.

Good luck!

BTW, in Windows, the following directories are searched for "xroar.conf":

current working directory (e.g., dir you clicked xroar.exe)
%USERPROFILE%/Local Settings/Application Data/XRoar/
%USERPROFILE%/Application Data/XRoar/

And if you wanted a common place to keep them, these are the directories
searched for ROM images:

current working directory
%USERPROFILE%/Local Settings/Application Data/XRoar/roms/
%USERPROFILE%/Application Data/XRoar/roms/

..ciaran

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