Michael Furman has provided the CoCo community with a working version of Frank Hogg’s Color FLEX operating system available for XRoar and, more recently, MAME. You can find out more about Michael’s project from here: http://www.ocs.net/2023/06/08/general-availability-of-fhl-color-flex-5-04/ … and a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj2AK9lkVe0&t=1s To make this work with MAME patches were required to the CoCo’s FDC […]
New update for ugBasic now available for CoCo-Pi
Marco Spedaletti continues work on ugBasic and at a very fast pace. Main project page is located here: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ Facebook group is located here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/867151224158600 Discord channel (CoCo Discord server) is located here: https://discord.com/channels/301741082600013824/1071655959363072011 The github repository is located here: https://github.com/spotlessmind1975/ugbasic When updating your CoCo-Pi, please make sure to select “Update CoCo-Pi from git repo” […]
New XRoar-1.4-1 package available for CoCo-Pi
The paint is still wet on this once it’s so new! 🙂 Notes for version 1.4 When updating your CoCo-Pi, please make sure to select “Update CoCo-Pi from git repo” and “Run CoCo-Pi fix script” in order for all the changes to be applied. Install the latest XRoar package (from the same menu).
New trs80gp emulator added to CoCo-Pi
The excellent trs80gp emulator has been around for quite some time (for Z80 based systems) but it now supports MC-10 and Color Computer emulation so I decided to add inital support of it to CoCo-Pi. More about the trs80gp project can be found here: http://48k.ca/trs80gp.html Thanks, George and Peter! When updating your CoCo-Pi, please make […]
CoCo-Pi (64bit) Project Update
Things are progressing quickly — I was able to generate a (mostly) working SD image and started my regression testing. I have shared it with one other person (for initial feedback) and will make this available for early (volunteer) testers soon. For those of you that already use the CoCo-Pi, things will be quite familiar. […]
64bit CoCo-Pi in the works!
It’s been a couple of years since the last major upgrade of the CoCo-Pi project and it’s due for overhaul. I’ve been working on a 64bit version as it’s getting harder to support 32bit ARM. This will be very challenging as there are some real limitations for Raspberry Pi 3 users (especially with MAME) and […]
New CMOC-0.1.82 package available for CoCo-Pi
Pierre Sarrazin released an update to his CMOC C like compiler for the CoCo. Release notes for 0.1.82: Added new header , which provides C functions setjmp() and longjmp().Added optimization option -fomit-frame-pointer to tell the compiler to not keep the frame pointer in a register for functions that do not need one. This can shorten […]
Latest ugBasic available for the CoCo-Pi
Marco Spedaletti has been working hard on ugBasic with (just about) daily updates. I figured it was time to update CoCo-Pi with the most recent version from git. Main project page is located here: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ Facebook group is located here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/867151224158600 Discord channel (CoCo Discord server) is located here: https://discord.com/channels/301741082600013824/1071655959363072011 The github repository is located […]
New XRoar-1.3.3319-WIP package available for CoCo-Pi
Ciaran has released another WIP (snap) version of XRoar: Ciaran specifically mentioned performance on a RPi3 would certainly be impacted if trying to use –ccr_simulated. You should use-ccr_partial or -ccr_5bit. When updating your CoCo-Pi, please make sure to select “Update CoCo-Pi from git repo” and “Run CoCo-Pi fix script” in order for all the changes […]
New MAME 0.254 package available for CoCo-Pi
As promised, there are some significant changes for MAME this month as it relates to the CoCo drivers. As per Tim Lindner’s comments in Discord: Detailed changes in the upcoming CoCo MAME drivers. One driver being removed:coco3dw1 This was a stock CoCo 3 with the DOS ROM replaced with a becker port capable version of […]
