[Coco] VCC 2.0.2 with full 6309 emulation. Runs Nitros9 EOU 6309.

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Wed Dec 4 18:43:30 EST 2019


Ok, found copies of the ROM’s, and I have it booting up. Some observations so far:
1) NitrOS9 EOU - the initial boot screen on a real Coco (and MAME) is white text on a dark blue background.  VCC 2.02, like 2.01, is still showing it as black on dark blue. This is palettes 12 and 13 on a stock VDG screen, if I remember correctly.

2) A brief test of integer divide in BASIC09 (which uses DIVQ on EOU Beta 4) works, and matches to proper results for the small sample that I did.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net

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> On Dec 4, 2019, at 5:22 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, being a long time VCC user, I decided to give this a try.
> Note: I'm running Win 10 Pro on a Skytech AMD 6core at 3.5ghz, w/8g of memory, and GeForce GTX 1050Ti w/8g
> 
> First, the vcc.ini file is configured for Walters system and will error out. My first instinct was to just delete it as VCC will create a fresh one when you run it, thus eliminating all Walter's settings.
> 
> 2nd, went into Config and set VCC to my liking (6309/RGB/8meg/allow resize,etc)
> 
> 3rd, Next to load the carts. I could load the mpi.dll and configure the mpi, BUT... any attempt at loading the disk/harddisk modules into the mpi failed. I never saw a dialog box come up for selecting files.
> 
> 4th, back to the vcc.ini to edit manually to load the drive and harddrive modules.
> 
> 5th, drives and harddrive in place, VCC boots up in RGBDOS. I try to mount the dsk/vhd images and I still get no dialog box for inserting disk OR vhd images.
> 
> 6th, back to the vcc.ini file to edit in the dsk & vhd images manually.
> 
> 7th, typed DRIVEOFF, then DOS. NitrOS9 boots up like a charm.
> 
> I have yet to check anything else out as I have about 10 projects on my desktop (all Coco related) and it's getting a little crowded LOL
> 
> So, my conclusion (on my system) is that the mpi, fd502, and harddisk insert dialogs are not working properly. I can edit the vcc.ini manually and get things to load, but no insert dialogs seem to be working other than VCC's initial Cart port.
> If I get a break from some of the stuff I have going, I will try and check out other things, like the Becker port & orc90 carts.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
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