[Coco] MAME 0.169 Not booting NitrOS-9 images

[Barry Nelson]

 Oh great, I wonder what those other devs have broken now… :( I guess it's time for me to jump back in and fix stuff again. Can you send me the image you are trying to use? I will try to either fix the Mame code, find a work around, or recommend a different version of Mame/Mess for you to run. Possibly a few of the above. I think the Mame/Mess release schedule is much to aggressive. The other coders put to much priority on including the "next new thing" in their release, and don't spend enough effort fixing bugs and making sure they don't break existing code. Mess version v0.150 (Sep 18 2013) should work reasonably well, if you can try that.

> BootLoop2Dope Doll Neden Hunter bootloop at juggadollslinux.org 
> Wed Jan 20 08:42:51 EST 2016
> 
> The version of MAME I'm using is 0.169 on Fedora 23 i686. (MAME and MESS
> has joined code bases).
> 
> I have tried changing the extension of the NitrOS-9 .dsk images to .os9 
> as suggested... but MAME spits out an "Error: Invalid image" error.
> 
> I have submitted a bug report to the MAME developers... but this has 
> largely gone ignored.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> I'm using MAME (MESS) until next month... until I can get a CoCo3 off 
> eBay... I got my eyes set on one...
> 
> First time poster, long time reader. Thanks for this mailing list.