[Coco] mess newbie

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

You must download the rom for the version of the mess.


Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> 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
>
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