I just learned about the Clock Signal emulator:

https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

The author recently joined the Cocopedia.com and has updated some technical sections with information he has learned in adding support for the CoCo. Clock Signal is described as:

“A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum, and Thomson MO5/6.”

– https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

The author is adding CoCo to this list. As someone who started out with a Commodore VIC-20, then went to the CoCo, I am intrigued to find another emulator that will do both. (MAME/MESS also does both.) There is currently early support for the CoCo in there, but it only boots a CoCo Color BASIC 1.2 ROM:

I was able to download Clock Signal from GitHub, then open the Xcode project on my Mac, change one setting, then build and run. Neat!

When you first run one of the emulators, it will prompt you to drag in the needed ROMs:

Drag them into that window, then it’s ready to go. Pretty easy.

I know little beyond this, but plan to play with this a bit and try to get some of the other systems up and running.

One downside is that it looks like there may not be a Windows version.

To be continued…