This is just a quick note to the CoCo II emulator users on my list that I haven't forgotten about you.  In fact, CoCo.EXE has been evolving over the past while.  A short list of what you can expect (sometime a couple of months from now most likely)...

Some of the features already written into Version 1.40

* SoundBlaster support with volume control
* Game port joystick support
* Read/write real CoCo disks from within the emulator (rather than having to use virtual disks though they are also still available)
* Improved recognition of artifacting modes
* Supports non-standard graphics modes
* Load snapshots at the MS-DOS prompt with COCO snapname
* RETRIEVE, DSKINI and emulator now support up to 80-track disks
* Select the disk's side with RETRIEVE and DSKINI; 1.2Mb drive calibration bug now fixed
* Keyboard layout customizer option
* Improved printer support, adding LFs to CRs is now optional and the printer output can be disabled
* Cold restart option; warm reset now the more convenient SHIFT-F10
* A new option in the Options Menu to shell to the MS-DOS prompt without ending an emulator session
* Selectable interrupt frequency
* Optional ROM patch for Disk BASIC adds new commands LOADX, SAVEX, DIRX, LOADXM, SAVEXM, KILLX, DOSX to access files, residing in your MS-DOS directory.  (DOSX is equivalent to
the Quit option.)
* A new opcode which allows 6809-based programs to call 8086 code from within the emulator.  (That's how the X commands access your MS-DOS directory.)


Other options I'd like to add

* Built-in file import/export menu
* Ability to use Disk BASIC's DSKINI from within the emulator to format virtual or real disks
* Ability to retrieve CoCo II ROMs out of a CoCo III.  They're in there but not normally accessible
* ...CoCo III features??????