[Coco] Emulators -- MESS/Vavasour/Stroffolino?

[Robert Gault]

Frank Swygert wrote:

> I'm familiar with Jeff Vavasour's emulator, think I still have a copy 
> here. Other than support for other systems as well, does the MESS 
> emulator do anything different/better? What about Phil Stroffolino's 
> Virtual CoCo?? Okay, looking in another window I do see that the Virtual 
> CoCo runs on a Mac, so that answers one question.

MESS is an almost perfect emulation of all Coco properties particularly 
graphics. Jeff's emulator runs faster because shortcuts were taken that 
attempt to optimize the program at the expense of precise emulation.

There are more MESS variants than you can shake a stick at. Whatever 
your computer brand, there probably is a version of MESS that will run 
on it.