[Coco] mess newbie

[Richard Goedeken]

I'm not sure about messui.exe, but with the standard command-line version of
MESS you need to use "-video opengl" to get antialiased (smooth) video output.

Richard

On 02/12/2015 06:58 PM, Guillaume Major wrote:
> 
> 
> You can download the Coco related ROMs for MESS (including the Coco 3 becker
> port version) on the Color Computer Archive here:
> 
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Emulators/MESS/ROMS/
> 
> You can download MESS from the Coco archive as well. For more convenience, I
> package the command line version (mess.exe) and the GUI (messui.exe) for
> Windows in the same ZIP file (like it used to be for previous releases) for
> both 32 and 64 bit. The MacOS X version is also available. Just unzip and drop
> the ROMs into the "roms" folder and you're all set. You may have to go in the
> options menu to specify your ROM folder.
> 
> I don't recommend the latest version (0.158) on Windows because it seems to
> have problems with the video output. Anti-aliasing seems to be broken and the
> screen looks all blocky. I recommend version 0.156 because it doesn't has this
> problem and has the becker port interface.
> 
> I just reuploaded version 0.156 on the archive and will keep it until the MESS
> team fixes this issue.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Marentes"
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> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
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> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: mess newbie
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> 
>> On 13/02/2015 7:08 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
>>> You must download the rom for the version of the mess.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> To save me downloading multiple ROM versions and blindly dumping them into
>> MESS to see if they work, can you point me to which CoCo3 ROM is compatible
>> with MESS 158?
>>
>> (This is another reason I like VCC, integrated CoCo3 ROM)
>>
>> Nick
>>
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