[Coco] mess newbie

[Nick Marentes]

On 13/02/2015 6:18 AM, Robert Hermanek wrote:
> The old Keil emulator, which was always my favorite back in the day, 
> doesn't work on modern Windows... it seems VCC is also problematic. 
> MESS still seems supported, but I've never used it. What are the most 
> basic first steps for a windows user?
>
> 1) download latest MESS from mess.org and unzip into \mess
> 2) what files/roms/etc do I need to have present?  In a subdirectory?
> 3) what commandline to start mess.exe and launch a coco3 emulator?
>
> I'll start sifting through online docs, but thought if there are a few 
> very easy first steps to get a basic coco3 up and running, I'd be 
> interested in knowing.  Or is MESS not the way people are leaning 
> these days?
>

That is exactly the process I followed and it failed. Added the ROM and 
ran the program but didn't work.

Seems it's not so "plug-and-play".

Nick