[Coco] Problems with Nitro Daily Build in Vcc and Windows10

coco at jechar.ca coco at jechar.ca
Wed Jun 27 13:56:16 EDT 2018


In Vcc to use a drivewire disk do you need to boot from a BECKER image ?

On 2018-06-27 13:50, David Ladd wrote:
> The Becker disk images are to be mounted in DriveWire and then you use 
> the
> CoCo3FPGA, VCC, MAME, or XROAR to boot via a TCP connection between the
> emulator and the DriveWire server.
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> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 7:54 AM, <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry Bill, your reply was helpful.
>> 
>> My mistake was to think that the BECKER disks were the ones for the 
>> Vcc
>> Emulator, apparently just the standard coco floppy images are whats 
>> needed,
>> I don't understand what the BECKER disks are for if they will not boot
>> under Vcc then how can one do Drivewire with TCP/IP ?
>> 
>> If they were supposed to boot under Vcc then you have a bug otherwise 
>> it's
>> my understanding that's lacking. I have used drivewire quite a bit but
>> always with  a real coco attached through it's Bit Banger to a pc or 
>> pi.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2018-06-25 11:43, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>> 
>>> Without knowing how your VCC is setup AND what disk you're using,
>>> there's no way of knowing what your problem is.
>>> Give a list of CPU, drives, drivewire, etc, etc and the FULL name of
>>> the disk you're trying and how you are booting (where the disk is
>>> mounted, cmds used, etc)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Subject: [Coco] Problems with Nitro Daily Build in Vcc and Windows10
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