[Coco] Becker Port patch for MESS 0.152s

[Bill Pierce]

Richard, I for one, appreciate all the work. Thank you very much.
If I knew more of MESS and it's sources, I would've done this myself long ago. One day I may delve into those MESS sources and "C" what I can find (pun intended), but I just have too many Coco projects going as it is.
Having a good emulator for all 3 OS's (Windows, Mac, Linux) running the same code will help make the Coco emulator be available to everyone,
Yes, the real hardware is always better. I have and regularly run a Coco 1, 2 & 3 but I know that until about 3 years ago, I had to rely on emulaters as I couldn't afford to get Cocos. Also the emulators are good developement and debugging tools when coding for the Coco and MESS's debugging tools fit the bill in this respect. 
Having DriveWire online with MESS just may make me a MESSy convert :-)
I do a lot of MIDI work and DriveWire has become my "synth of choice" since I can connect DW4 to any Midi software on my PC and run it from my Coco.
When I got my current Coco 3 system about 3 years ago, the first thing I did after getting Nitros9 running was connect a Midi cable to my PC. Then I discovered what Aaron had done with DriveWire4 and Midi and I haven't used a Midi cable since. So having DW4 on MESS and being able to move files from real Cocos, to Vcc to XRoar to Mess allows me to check all platforms with ease.

Thanks again :-)


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Goedeken <Richard at fascinationsoftware.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 21, 2014 1:41 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Becker Port patch for MESS 0.152s


Hi Bill,

I'll try to find an IRC channel for MESS/MAME devs and ask them about the
configuration options.  About the other builds, I really haven't had much
access to any Windows machines during the past couple of years.  But it just
so happens that I expect to be getting a high performance laptop with Windows
7 on it tomorrow that I ordered for my contracting work.  I will be able to
make it compatible and do a Win32 build with this.  I also have a macbook pro,
so I could make an OSX build as well if anyone would like.

The modifications that I made should work for all of the Coco 1/2/3 targets on
MESS.  I think it could be easily adapted to the Dragon targets as well but I
haven't done this.

Richard

On 03/20/2014 07:57 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> 
> Awsome Richard I figured you would get it when we discussed it before as
> you sounded pretty confident that you could do it. And yes, a selectable
> port is definately a needed feature as I often run several emulations at
> once, each on a different port. But if it can't be done, then I guess MESS
> wins the 65504 prize LOL Do you plan to do a Windows build? I do not use
> Linux (often) and would really like to see a Windows binary of this. If
> not, I'm sure there's someone here that can adapt your patches (if made
> available) to build a Windows version.... maybe even a Mac version.
> 
> We would then have a decent cross-platform Coco emulator with Becker Port
> support. I have already learned the benifits of this in the Becker Vcc and
> XRoar emulation and it's hard to live without once you start using it. It's
> the very reason I use Vcc and XRoar instead of MESS. Also... does this
> patch include "all" versions of the Coco in Mess or just a particular
> emulation?
> 
> If you need "beta" testers, let me know as I can run Linux in a VM and I
> would be a perfect tester as I know very little of Linux. So if I can set
> up and run it in Linux... anyone can :-)
> 
> 
> Bill Pierce "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
> 
> 
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> 

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