[Coco] CoCo Emulators

[Steve Ostrom]

Thanks again for your help, Bill.  VCC tape now works for me to both save and load.  Emulators are not intuitive for me, and now knowing that .cas files are really the names of tapes and not names of program files was the key.  Are program files stored as .bas files on the tape, or some other designation?  Just curious.

--- Steve ---


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From: Bill Pierce via Coco
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 8:05 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Cc: Bill Pierce
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Emulators

After looking at your sequence of events a little better...First, you never mounted a tape before saving.
You must first mount a tape with the "Browse" button. You do not need an existing tape file as VCC will create a new one from the name you type in or load an existing one, in the directory you have "browsed" to.
Basically, you recorded to thin air, then created a blank tape and tried to read it.
Tapes and the files you save on them are two different entities. in fact, one tape file can have an unlimited number of program files (or until the tape counter runs out). Just like real tapes. Emulation... ya gotta love it.

Bill P.