[Coco] MESSUI 0.154 with Becker port

[Robert Gault]

Guillaume Major wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I uploaded Richard's original patch and my patch on the Color Computer Archive.
> You can get them at:
>
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Emulators/MESS/Source/Becker%20port%20patch/
>
>

Guillaume,

The patch works for me at rev 32053 but can't compile the ui version until that 
private patch gets updated on the release of .155.

There are some strange things about the patch for MESS. Do you see this on your 
system? With the 154UI version you posted, MESS does not show any floppy drives. 
Regardless of what is done with the MESS menus, you can't get floppy drives to 
show or mount images.
With my compilation of the MESS command line more recent version, I do have 
floppies. Also I can run coco2b, coco3, and coco3h with Drivewire. I have not 
tried other combinations.
We need to determine if this is a MESS bug or a Becker Patch bug.

There is a major bug with all Drivewire emulator/coco combinations on my system. 
Do you see this?
Start Drivewire4 (current version) with a suitable NitrOS-9 disk mounted in 
DWdrive0. Start any emulator with the Becker version, MESS, VCC, or real Coco3 
with 6309. Boot NitrOS-9, and at the first attempt at DW access after the 
welcome message is shown, the emulator/coco will crash and reboot the ROM. Any 
subsequent attempt to boot NitrOS-9 works normally.
You can access Drivewire4 normally (even just after starting it) if you don't 
use NitrOS-9.

I think but am not sure that the crash has something to do with starting the 
NitrOS-9 clock as when a DW4 clock module is used, the date is not correct until 
about 1 minute after NitrOS-9 is running.

Robert