[Coco] Which Coco Emulator for Raspberry Pi?

[Bob Devries]

Hi Chris.

Regarding the keyboard being special, you just may have nailed it. I'm 
using a microsoft wireless multimedia keyboard and mouse.

I'll plug in a more standard keyboard and mouse to see if that makes it 
work.

If you send me a link to the mess binary and mess.ini, I can compare 
them, and/or run yours to see if it behaves differently.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

On 21/10/2014 10:54 AM, Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:17:57 +1000
> Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris
>>
>> By "locks up" I mean that there is NO keyboard response. I need to
>> power down to get control back.
>>
>> I tried also to start from the command line (No Desktop), but there
>> all I get is a black screen and no keyboard response.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
> Bob:
>
> 	Dunno what to say or suggest. The one I compiled 2 days ago
> from the current source
> (https://www.dropbox.com/s/xprtyrercs03ins/sdlmess0125.tgz) works on
> both my Pis (256meg and 512meg) under X or the console.
>
> 	I uploaded a binary (Raspberry Pi) to my dropbox account with
> my mess.ini and the output of 'ldd mess'. Maybe we can spot a
> difference. I don't recall for sure, but, I think mess looks in the
> current dir for mess.ini and failing that looks in $HOME.mess. Might
> make a difference if you have something in the current dir.
>
> 	I'm assuming that your keyboard isn't anything special.
> When 'locked up' can you <CTRL><FN2> to get to another console??
>
>
>> On 19/10/2014 10:38 PM, Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
>>> On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:13:19 +1000
>>> Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> SDLMess0125 compiles correctly, but as yet doesn't run properly. It
>>>> gets to the system selection panel, and locks up.
>>> 	I'm not sure what you mean by 'locks up'. Up and Down Arrows
>>> select the game, Enter to start the game. Window closes and another
>>> opens with the 'description' screen. Press Enter (or OK the first
>>> time) and the emulator starts.
>>>
>>> 	I have a CoCo3 icon on the desktop that starts mess with the
>>> command 'mess -coco3'.
>>>
>>>> I wonder if there is just not enough memory to run it from the
>>>> desktop? Chris can you comment on this?
>>> 	Works fine on both my Pis. (every club meeting for over a
>>> year) free reports 108 mB free running it from the desktop on my old
>>> (256meg) Pi.
>>>
>>>> Sigh, I'll investigate further.
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>>
>>> Christopher R. Hawks
>>> HAWKSoft
>>
>
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft