[Coco] CCEDIT and MESS

[Bill Pierce]

Robert H.... in Mess, I find the CPU speed setting has a lot to do with the keystroke problems. You have to speed up the CPU (and lose Coco realism) to get all the fast keystrokes... This cannot be set in the non-GUI version. Only the GUI versions have access to the emulation speed (or maybe cmd line). This is for the latest versions. Older versions are not quite as bad. As far as the arrow keys, in natural mode, they are used for "joystick keys" so Mess doesn't see them... In "Coco mode" they seem to work. I have tried all kinds of settings and can't seem to regain control of the arrow keys in "natural mode".
Those are just a "couple" of the problems with the newer (latest) versions of Mess... There are more but I can't remember at the moment. I know there was problems with floppy disk drives and the 2nd HD in OS9, and some real bad problems with Coco 1 & 2 emulations. The Mess dev team has really screwed up the Coco emulation (again!).
I find much older versions are more reliable. The "Becker Port"needs to be added to the older versions as the latest Mess version is trash a far a the Coco is concered. I got tired of even "messing" with it (pun intended) and went back to Vcc where most of the bugs are in my programming and not the emulator :-)
For Coco 1 & 2, I use XRoar.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Mar 9, 2015 12:09 pm
Subject: [Coco] CCEDIT and MESS


First off, CCEDIT rocks, I think I'll be getting a lot of use out of 
it.  Thank
you Brett for sharing!

MESS related question:  I first tried CCEDIT on MESS
using the -natural 
command line option, and most key strokes were not detected
properly -- 
no arrows/ctrl, could not do upper vs lower case.  When I use
editor in 
mess without the -natural option, everything works "perfectly." 
That's 
in quotes for the following reason:  Do other people notice, in general,

that mess apparently misses keystrokes? When I type normally, or even a 
bit
more carefully, keystrokes get missed quite often.  This has nothing 
to do with
CCEDIT, I can replicate it just typing in basic.  Is there a 
cure for this? 
Maybe my CPU is too slow, but it's a dual 2.4gig, you'd 
think that would
suffice.

Any advice appreciated.

-RobertH

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