[Coco] Help with MacMAME (Tony Schountz)

[Juan Castro]

Or just put the ones that you can find, like disk10.rom (Plain old DECB)
and the HDB-DOS ones and see if it runs.

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


Em seg., 24 de mar. de 2025 às 16:31, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> 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:
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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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