[Coco] MAME 0.169 Not booting NitrOS-9 images

[Barry Nelson]

Sorry, but "I downloaded them from Sourceforge" isn't much help to me in locating the exact image that you are having issues with. Can you please send a link? I will examine the image for issues and test it with other versions of MESS and VCC.

> BootLoop2Dope Doll Neden Hunter bootloop at juggadollslinux.org 
> Wed Jan 20 11:06:56 EST 2016
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I tried the ones from Sourceforge. I *could* try an older version... if 
> I can dig up an older RPM from somewhere.
> 
> DriveWire 4 sometimes boots it... but then segfaults about 60% of the 
> time, if I use the customized coco3dw1 romset.
> 
> 
> 
> > Generally when MAME/MESS does not like an .os9 disk it is because the size of
> > the file does not match the OS-9 info in LSN0. So the question is what images
> > are you trying to mount and what url is their source. I can easily test an image
> > and tell you what is causing the problem. It is not likely that the version of
> > MESS/MAME is involved.
> >
> > You will find that many disk .os9 files are not complete in that empty portions
> > at the end of the disk are missing.
> >
> > There is no reason to stop using MAME/MESS after acquiring a real Coco3. You
> > will find that it is very convenient to use MESS in conjunction with your Coco
> > to move files to disks and do debugging with the MESS debugger. You will also
> > want to use Drivewire so that your Coco can talk to your PC.
> >
> > Robert
> 
> Well... dunno what's going on. I downloaded them from Sourceforge.
> 
> And I'm not gonna stop using MAME/MESS after I get my real CoCo. I have 
> some other uses for it... Including using DriveWire... which I have 
> installed. Luckily I have a standard serial port (and 8 USB, but I know 
> it's not recommended for DW) to make some neat setup...
> 
> Thanks a ton...