[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 48, Issue 23

[Robert Gault]

Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 04:38 PM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
> 
>> I use MESS 0.117.
>>
>> Bob, I've noticed that the COCO2 emulation appears to be broken.  I 
>> think it
>> is the ROM.  When I start it up, everytime I hit a key, the Disk Extended
>> Basic message comes up.  Three or four times of that and it locks up.
> 
> 
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> 
> By the way, my past comments on how the CoCo emulation in M.E.S.S. gets 
> worst on each release still holds true, no?  Do like I did and just 
> stick with version .104b until they quit goofing off.  ;)
> 

This bug has been reported to the MESS team and a fix is in progress.
"It appears that a PIA field sync interrupt somehow fails to get 
properly acknowledged; and thus the field sync interrupt handler stops 
being called."