[Coco] Help with MacMAME (Tony Schountz)

[Juan Castro]

What I do to run a CoCo3 in XRoar:

xroar -machine coco3 -bas ../cocoroms/bas13.rom -extbas
../cocoroms/coco3.rom -cart-rom hdbdw3bc3.rom

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


Em seg., 24 de mar. de 2025 às 17:08, Tony Schountz via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> escreveu:

> Unfortunately, same problem.
>
> Now I'm trying XRoar and I now get the expected "Extended Color Basic..."
> startup green screen and I seem to be able to attach my OS9 boot disk
> (original from Radio Shack). But when I type "DOS" I get "?SN ERROR"
> followed by "OK". Perhaps the disk image is not attaching? It's named
> OS9BOOT.DSK and is 161k in size, so I am sure it's the original
> out-of-the-box 35 track, single sided floppy image.
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM Juan Castro via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > 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:
> > >> >      <
> > >> CAAsy49BFF0ZuPQjpcned-NFBXv2V_akGwCjGVrZkc26yvGiJSQ at mail.gmail.com>
> > >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > >> >
> > >> > 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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