[Coco] Which Coco Emulator for Raspberry Pi?

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:24:50 +1000
Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

	OOppss! Thought I did.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/afhlnjd7ubb3a4m/mess_bob.tgz

	Dunno if wireless matters. My 'big' RasPi uses a Logitech
wireless keyboard and mouse with no issues. My 'little' RasPi uses a
hardwired keyboard (actually a Teensy and CoCo3 keyboard) and wireless
mouse.

	Does the M$ stuff need a special driver?? Thought they would
pretend to be regular USB stuff.

> 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
> 
> 




Christopher R. Hawks
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