yes I have the coco.rom file. The emulator runs, I can write a basic
program, I just can't load any .dsk or .bas files that I have
downloaded from the internet.....

any ideas?

-> > I hope this is an appropriate
place for this question. I started out
->  > with rat shack coco 3 computer in the 80's, 128K ram, and the mighty 300
->  > baud modempak, woohoo.
->  > 
->  > Anyway, I see there are a bunch of coco emulators out there that will
->  > run on a DOS pc, the one that seems like it might be the best is by
->  > Jeff Vavasour, and while I can save/load 'snapshots' of whatever is in
->  > memory (.pak) I can't for the life of me load a cooc .bas (basic) or
->  > ..dsk (disk) file of programs for the coco I've downloaded from the
->  > internet. Has anyone had any sucesss in this area ?
->  > 
->  > cheers
->  > Matt

-> err, do you have a coco bios file?
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