[Coco] ????

[Richard Goedeken]

I never lived in Bartlett, though I grew up in Cedar Rapids Iowa and did 
internships in Highland Park, IL and Schaumberg when I was in college.

Richard

On 3/18/21 11:26 AM, Robert Swoger via Coco wrote:
> Richard did you ever life in the bartlett  IL?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Goedeken <Richard at fascinationsoftware.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Thu, Mar 18, 2021 12:23 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Emulators
> 
> There is the venerable VCC but it emulates a Coco 3. If that will suit your
> purposes then I would recommend using that one. Otherwise, if it must be a
> Coco 2 then I would suggest XRoar. Both of these are quite user friendly (at
> least I think they are, compared to the also excellent but difficult to
> configure MAME).
> 
> Typically, no matter which emulator you choose, you need to provide the ROM
> files. The COCO has multiple ROMS: BASIC, EXTENDED BASIC, SUPER EXTENDED BASIC
> (Coco 3 only) and DISK BASIC. The ROMs are still under copyright protection
> and so they cannot be distributed with the emulators. The legally correct way
> to obtain them is to dump them from a ROM chip that you own with an EPROM
> burner, but you can also get these files from friends or the grey areas of the
> internet. I think the coco 3 romset is delivered as a single 32k image, but
> the others are 8k each.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Richard