[Coco] MAME

[Steve Strowbridge]

About 2 years ago MAME and MESS merged, so they are the same thing.

When we refer to the current versions of MAME, the MESS is silent.

It's possible to compile just the MESS portion, although I don't know how,
but it was done for me by Ron Klein, however we we reference MAME, in the
context of CoCo emulation, we should be referring to, and using the latest
version.


On Jun 6, 2017 12:20 PM, "Wayne Campbell" <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have used MESS before. I still have the installation. I'm not sure what
> the differences are between MAME and MESS, but I do know that MESS is
> something like a subset? of MAME. I have the roms for all coco flavors (I
> think, I'll have to check to be sure). They came in an archive of roms for
> MESS. I'm not sure if the Dragon is emulated in MESS, or if I have the rom
> for that. I used MESS when I was wanting to play a CoCo1/2 game or other
> program not coco3. It really came in handy when I was comparing the
> differences in Soko-Ban on the coco2 and coco3 (I am also a sokoban
> enthusiast). I started using VCC because it is coco3 specific, and decode
> does not run on a coco1 or 2.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:39 PM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > Stevie Strowbridge Wrote:
> > > What I plan to do this week, is record a simple "MAME 101" video on the
> > > basics of downloading, extracting, placing ROMS in the folder, getting
> it
> > > running, and basic tweaking of the program.
> >
> > That will be a good service to the community Stevie!
> >
> > Along those lines, we could use a tutorial and/or a cheat sheet w/ all
> the
> > relevant command line options laid out. HA! I'm not asking for much ...
> :)
> >
> > Just an FYI. I have NO qualms at all w/ MAME or people using MAME over
> VCC.
> >
> > I use MAME too (and XRoar)
> >
> > However, from a hobby, spare time, project perspective – I’d rather work
> > on VCC than MAME.  IMO, programming MAME is a huge learning curve + more
> > complex to work w/ than VCC.  I'm already getting my head wrapped around
> > the VCC code.  Other issues are the way MAME breaks things from time to
> > time, and the bureaucracy to get your stuff accepted and added. BUT I’m
> not
> > here to bash MAME.  I’ve said it before on FB, I’ll say it again here –
> the
> > emulation for the arcade games Defender and Robotron (my two favorite
> games
> > ever) are absolutely impeccable. The video and sound are SO spot on, I’d
> > venture to guess that they are practically indistinguishable from the
> real
> > deal...  if you were to hook up a modern PC to one of those old school
> RGB
> > monitors in an original cabinet -- I'd bet you could barely tell them
> > apart, if at all. Same thing could be said for the hundreds if not
> > thousands of other arcade games.  It’s an incredible feat actually.
> >
> > So, I’d like to see VCC updated w/ all the current issues fixed and
> > expanded w/ new features. There are things I want to add to VCC that
> > probably would never be accepted on MAME. But if folks are waiting for me
> > to fix VCC then I highly recommend they learn and use MAME too. It’s
> going
> > to take me time, on the order of one to two years. So, if I make it
> halfway
> > by CoCoFEST 2018, I’ll be doing good.
> >
> > James
> >
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