[Coco] MESS on Raspberry Pi

[Bob Devries]

Well, after a bit of research, I have been able to build MESS on my 
Raspberry Pi B+.  It's slow, but it does work.
I also built lwtools, toolshed and nitros9.

Next project: Build MESS on my Banana Pi (when it arrives).

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

On 31/07/2014 12:27 PM, Bill Nobel wrote:
> Well the way I set it up on my Pi is the folder I extracted the source files already had the cfg, artwork, etc folders as well as mess.ini so I just created rom and Software folders inside that folder and copied my Boot and VHD to the software/coco3h folder. Altered the mess.ini to reflect the paths. My command line from console is ‘./mess coco3h -flop0 ./software/coco3h/Nitros9_Boot.dsk -hard ./software/coco3h/Nitros9.vhd -ram 2m’.  Yeah it is bit slow but not bad.  Are you running a stripped down wheezy?  I also have several other servers running on my Pi and have not tried running raw wheezy alone. Curious if that might speed things up a bit.  The fastest I get is directly on the Pi with KB/Mouse and Composite, I can’t get HDMI working anymore (did work but stopped) on my Pi.  Don’t even bother trying  though Remote Desktop, it’s pathetic then.
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> Bill Nobel
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>> On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Bill, and all.
>>
>> I compiled and installed sdlmess0125 mostly following the instructions from Christopher Hawks, with these alterations:
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>> The directories cart cass cfg and roms are in $HOME/mess NOT $HOME/.mess.
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>> When I try to load a VHD file in the file selector, I need to navigate to $HOME/VHD. that's the directory I chose. However, the File Selector changes this from /home/pi/VHD to /home/piVHD. I'd call this a bug. Has anyone else found this problem?
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>> As you said, Bill, it's a *tad* slow :(
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>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>
>> On 30/07/2014 11:20 PM, Bill Nobel wrote:
>>> It is possible Bob as I have it running.  I used a copy of the SDLMess .0125 source files from Christopher Hawks.  I runs a little slower than a real Coco but is usable.  The compile took just about an hour to complete, but seems quite stable.  I took my entire VHD and boot disk dropped it on a 32gb card and voila a Coco 3 on a Pi.
>>>
>>>    Now I probably could get it running faster if I didn’t have a few Servers running on my Pi (web, ftp, mysql etc.)
>>> but haven’t tried yet.
>>>
>>> Bill Nobel
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>>>> On Jul 30, 2014, at 12:22 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm led to believe that it is possible to have a Colour Computer emulator running on the Raspberry Pi.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to use apt-get to install it (MESS), but it seems not to be available.
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody who has done this give me some pointers?
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>>>
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