[Coco] Re: I need MESS help

[Nathan Woods]

Roger Taylor writes: 

> I know of at least 10-15 annoying things in M.E.S.S., but so far, none 
> prevent me from emulating the CoCo's.  I'm not sure what's a bug when 
> something they just added to the interface app doesn't work.  It's almost 
> like they know, because... how would they not?  ;)

Very easily actually.  Sometimes, code gets merged in with MAME32 (the MAME 
equivalent of the "interface app") and an error is introduced in the merging 
process.  The feature got tested in MAME32, but not the MESS GUI. 

> M.E.S.S. is getting slower every time they update it.  The CoCo emulation 
> is slowing down.  I don't mind at all when they add support for hardware 
> acceleration.  This is the whole idea.  Most video cards are sitting
> there wasting time unless you're running a good 3-D game.

This should not be happening any more.  There were some architectural 
changes inherited from MAME around the 0.61 timeframe that negatively 
impacted MESS.  But in the later releases around 0.70 and on, this should 
not be the case any more.