Cuttle Cart 2's .CCU file direct editing

[mvigor]

So I used BBEdit to wrap the .CCU file every 64 characters and displayed it in a monospace font and it's pretty readable.

 

Am I going to run into any trouble directly editing it this way and then dropping it back onto one continuous line when I'm done? I can see that I'll have to manually decide what bankswitching method to use and all that, but it should work right?

[+Mitch]

It seems like you're just making it harder on yourself. It's much easier to edit the menu.txt file and run it through the menu generator program to create the MENU.CC2 file.

 

Mitch

[bjk7382]

Yes, you are better off just working with the menu.txt file

 

Then after you get that how you want it, then run it thru the menu generator program, and then your pretty much done.

 

If you want to PM me I can guide you thru how to do it for the first time, but after you learn how, you won't believe how easy it really is.

[mvigor]

The main reason I ask is because I keep my ROMS on my mac and my only PC is a Connectix Virtual PC program. Windows 95 boots reasonably fast, but running Windows 2000 is painfully slow.

 

Every time I wanted to change the CC2 menu I'd have to boot the virtual pc, copy the memory card contents over to it and then get started editing, blah blah blah, transfer it all back over to the mac side for USB support and then fill the memory card again.

 

I'm actually quite skilled at using BBEdit text editor to quickly convert any bunch of text into any other format, layout, whatever. I'm not convinced that using the generator program would be my fastest option.

 

I'll just have to give it a try and see if it works.

[Bruce Tomlin]

The main reason I ask is because I keep my ROMS on my mac and my only PC is a Connectix Virtual PC program.   Windows 95 boots reasonably fast, but running Windows 2000 is painfully slow.

Uhhhh... you're using VPC just so you can run the menu utilities?

 

Geez. Here are binaries right off of my powerbook.

 

cc2menuconv MENU.TXT MENU.CC2



cc2menugen (run in same directory as CC2ROMDB.TXT and cart binaries)



cc2serial version 1.2 - 2004-08-24

Usage:

   cc2serial [options] [input file]

Options:

   -r baud    baud rate

   -b name    bank switch filename (default 4K)

   -s name    startup filename (default 78BIOS)

Valid bank switch names:

   2K       3F       4K       7800_16K 7800_32K 7800_48K 7800_4K  7800_8K 

   78POKEY  78SCR8SM 78SC_BIG 78SC_LOW 78SC_POK 78SC_R16 78SC_R8K 78SC_SM 

   ABS78    ACT78    CV       E0       E7       F4       F4SC     F6      

   F6SC     F8       F8R      F8SC     FA       FANR     FE       HSC_16K 

   HSC_32K  HSC_48K  MEGABOY  SC       UA       7800_ROF 

Valid startup names:

   26QUICK  78BIOS   78QUICK  F6BANK0  F8BANK1  HSC      HSCQUICK SC

(example: cc2serial -r 115200 -b 7800_16K -s 78QUICK <tubes.bin >/dev/cu.USA19*.1

cc2utils.zip

[mvigor]

You converted the menu generator to run in Unix? Awesome! I'm going to get this running today!

[Bruce Tomlin]

You converted the menu generator to run in Unix?  Awesome!  I'm going to get this running today!

Uh, no, it was in the source package somewhere (I think it's makemenu.c) and I just compiled it and renamed the binary to something easier to remember. I did write cc2serial, however.