[Coco] Dumping CoCo RAM images to disk

Brendan Donahe brendan at polylith.com
Mon Feb 6 22:08:46 EST 2017


I have taken screenshots of VCC, as well, but I need them in a binary
format, consumable by the CoCo...

Thanks,
Brendan

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Tom Seagrove <tjseagrove at writeme.com> wrote:

> I have just taken a screen shot of VCC to get images in the past.  Not
> CoCo format but it works to get the pics.
>
> Tom
>
> On Feb 6, 2017, at 9:45 PM, Brendan Donahe <brendan at polylith.com> wrote:
>
> What is the simplest way to go about dumping a CoCo RAM image to disk?  In
> particular, for some work I'm doing with CoCoVGA, I'd like to dump out some
> video RAM images from commercial software so that I can experiment with
> them and possibly embed segments into a demo.
>
> It is very straightforward to do this in BASIC, but I can't exactly <break>
> out of a binary to SAVEM RAM to disk.
>
> It doesn't look like VCC has a way to do this, either.
>
> The Color Computer Archive has some disk utilities, but without
> documentation, it's not clear how to use them, and besides, I expect the
> video data for most games to be compressed in some way.
>
> Any ideas or recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan
>
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