[Coco] VCC and Mac

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

This message is just fine!

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Leiber" <adit at nationsdial.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC and Mac



On Jun 4, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Paulo Lindoso [gmail] wrote:

> Dean,
>
> I am using Mess 0.132 (Jul 19 2009).  From what I read over the lists,  it 
> seems the most "workable'  version.
>

Paulo,

I'll have to find a copy of that version and see if it'll run here. I tried 
the versions on macmess.org (as well as the front end) and I
couldn't get anything to work. I'm running Lion so perhaps that is the 
problem.

> Config was truly a mess…

No kidding. I had to force it to create mess.ini and then I had to force it 
to verify the ROMS before I could get anything to work. (after rummaging 
through all the docs) All in all,
not user friendly, but its free. I'm playing with a frontend I found to see 
if that eases the pain somewhat.
>
> I've downloaded SDLMESS, place it on my Applications folder and 
> reconfigured my mess.ini to point to dirs in my home folder, where I 
> placed ROMs and Software.
>
> Problems I still have:
>
> 1) My Macbook pad is not a viable option to replace Joysticks and I can't 
> get to use keys as an option.  Given up trying at the moment... No Zaxxon 
> for me...
>
> 2) Mapping special keys is still somewhat messy as well.  Standard TAB to 
> access the menu mixes up with CoCo TAB, it doesn't like Fn+FunctionKeys…

Yes I'm having that problem big time as well. I got 'stuck' in the emulator 
<LOL> and had to reboot my mac to get out. Not good.
>
> All in all, it is not a good experience, so I seldom use it, preferring to 
> play with my original CoCo3, which at least reads DSK files with my 
> SuperIDE, but still polishing out some glitches there as well... ;)

I don't have room to set the ol' gal up at the moment, so that's why all the 
playing with the emulators.
>
> VCC installed very easily over WineBottler (no extra confs... standard 
> Wine App).  Loading DSK files as floppies was OK as well.  I will soon try 
> to play and write stuff to see how it goes.
>
> So far, better experience with VCC than MESS…
>
That has been my experience so far. VCC was easier to set up and get running 
via Crossover (yeah its not free, but I'm lazy sometimes) than playing with 
a native version of MESS. As someone pointed out.. an emulator in an 
emulator. It probably runs about true CoCo speed that way! :-D

Dean



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