[Coco] Emulator

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:55 PM, TP Reitzel<tpreitzel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> We need an emulator to replace MESS. For almost a decade, MESS has had recurring problems with regressions, etc. Personally, I just can't deal with it much anymore. Various toolkits are employed which just worsens the situation with regressions. Frankly, I have a lot of venting to do about MESS, but I'll hold my tongue. I've stated as much as the background for our need of  an independent project. Although Vcc is likely still active, it hasn't been updated in awhile. We need a portable, e.g. SDL, fully implemented emulator for all CoCos whether it simply emulates historical machines (CoCo 1-3) or contains newer features as well...
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Could you elaborate on exactly what is wrong with MESS?  Have you
submitted bug reports (or better yet patches to fix the problems) to
the developers?  I don't know the team behind MESS, but the open
source projects I do work with always welcome such things.  if there
is a indeed bug that has been fixed but regressed, correcting the
problem is often quite simple once it is identified.

Even if MESS was 50% broken, it would be 50% more complete than some
new emulator.   Rather than fragment a small community, I think the
best results will come from rallying behind existing solutions.

-Aaron