[Coco] Help with MacMAME (Tony Schountz)

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:53:06 +0100
Tony Schountz via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Next issue - the darned keyboard mapping. I think I need to read the
> xroar manual from start to end.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM Tony Schountz <schountz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > OK, I have it sorted out. I found my 6309 coco3.rom with Disk
> > Extended Basic and it's booting the OS-9 Level II OEM disk image
> > just fine. I tried a couple of other boot images I had used before
> > with Jeff Vavasour's emulator but they do not work. I suspect I'll
> > need to build fresh boot images.
> >
> > Thanks for the help - it got me where I needed to go!
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM Tony Schountz <schountz at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Oh, right. The neurons are still dusty. Isn't that in the
> >> coco3.rom?
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM Bruce W. Calkins via Coco <
> >> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "DOS" is an Extended Disk Basic (second version) command.
> >>>
> >>> Bruce W.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 3/24/25 16:08, Tony Schountz via Coco wrote:
> >>> > 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.
> >>> >
> >>>
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> >>
> 

Tony:

    Add "-kbd-translate" to your command line or "kbd-translate=1" to
~/.xroar/xroar.conf. That will use the real layout of your keyboard,
not overlay the CoCo keys.


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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