[Coco] mess newbie

[Guillaume Major]

Thank for the tip! It turns out that bilinear filtering seems to be disabled 
by default now in MESSUI. You have to enable it to get anti-aliasing.

Guillaume

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Goedeken" 
<Richard-sfY+/M8M2zzUyj6Va5MyTSWTkRzJkiQl at public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
<coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: mess newbie


> 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"
>> <nickma2-sFbbPxZDHXw0n/F98K4Iww at public.gmane.org>
>> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
>> <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA at public.gmane.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: mess newbie
>>
>>
>>> 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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