[Coco] Help with MacMAME (Tony Schountz)

[Juan Castro]

Try procuring these .rom files and putting them in a coco_fdc.zip file and
have that zip in the same directory as coco3h.zip.

Juan Castro
Enviado do meu Olivetti Programma 101
http://retropolis.com.br


Em seg., 24 de mar. de 2025 às 16:26, Tony Schountz via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> escreveu:

> Thanks much. I have the coco3h.zip rom file in the roms directory on my
> Mac, and Coco3 Hitachi shows up in MAME. However, when I try to launch the
> CoCo3, I get this error message on the MAME screen, which is repeated in
> terminal when I quit MAME:
>
> 2025-03-24 20:22:31.688 mame[61617:13068924] +[IMKClient subclass]: chose
> IMKClient_Modern
> System media audit failed:
> disk10.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> ados.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> ados2b.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> ados3.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> ados3-40.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> ados3-80.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> rgbdos_mess.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> hdbdw3bck.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
> hdbdw3bc3.rom (8192 bytes) - NOT FOUND (coco_fdc)
>
> I don't know what to do from this point but I'd sure like to get it up and
> running.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM Barry Nelson via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Typically, you would NOT unzip the ROMs before placing them in the ROMs
> > folder for MAME. MAME scans zip files in the ROMs folder. The zip files
> > should be named "name_of_system.zip", for example coco3.zip. If you DO
> > unzip them, you must create a sub folder under ROMs named with the name
> > of the system and place the individual files for that system in that
> > folder. The names of those files are determined by the system.
> >
> > On 2025-03-24 01:18, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:44:58 +0100
> >  From: Tony Schountz <schountz at gmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Help with MacMAME
> > Message-ID:
> >      <CAAsy49BFF0ZuPQjpcned-NFBXv2V_akGwCjGVrZkc26yvGiJSQ at mail.gmail.com
> >
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> >
> > Just getting to this after quite a long time (Mac mini M4, Apple
> > Silicon).
> > I downloaded the coco3h.zip file from the CoCo archive and placed it
> > (coco3.rom and disk11.rom) into the "rom" folder in my (Mac) home folder
> > (~/roms). MAME sees the ROM file, "Color Computer 3 (NTSC)". However,
> > when
> > I select it I get an error message:
> >
> > "Required ROM/disk images for the selected system are missing or
> > incorrect.
> > Please select the correct image or select a different system." I have
> > also
> > tried all of the other coco3 roms on the archive with the same problem:
> >
> > coco3.zip
> > coco3dw1.zip
> > coco3h.zipcoco3p.zip
> > coco3_hdb1.zip
> >
> > Of course, they are all unzipped before putting them in the roms folder.
> > Any suggestions for how to get MAME running a CoCo3 emulator?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tony
> >
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