[Coco] MAME/MESS Binary Builds for OS X

Fri Jun 16 10:36:46 EDT 2017

I downloaded the latest Mame windows exec from the dev site just to check it out yesterday. There's a lot of things I like about Mess, but in NitrOS9, there's just too many things I find annoying. I would rather use VCC, but that's just me and what I'm used to.
One of my big complaints is Mame's odd interface. I usually fix this by using a MessUI and get all the menus, but I decided to work with the Mame UI for my tests. I was playing around with the Win64 binary when I noticed something odd...
When the icon for the binary showed, it was for a "Zip" file...
When I run Mame, it seems to take forever to load and now I know why. I right clicked the exec file, opened it in 7-zip and sure enough, it WAS a zip.
Unzipping the file revealed tons of stuff. After moving my roms to the new folder, I ran the "mame64.exe" that I found and what's this? There's a completely different GUI... A complete launcher and control panel!!!
All of a sudden, I had access to all the stuff available in the MessUI, but in the format of the Mame menus, just more detailed.

What I want to know is why was all this hidden? Why not a proper installer that reveals all this?

And the test results?
Sorry, but I'll still put up with VCC's quirks as Mame's still just too much trouble when I want to just crank up and go. I don't play games, so I don't see most of the quirks in VCC that everyone else complains about and NitrOS9 runs 100% better in VCC. Mames overclocking methods just do not work for the Coco emulation and makes the keyboard unusable and the system clock speeds up making software dating impossible (NitrOS9 dates every file use).

Mame is good for many things and I wish VCC had it's debugger and I can see why gamers like it better, but for my purposes, I'll stick with VCC... for now :-)

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Jun 16, 2017 10:07 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] MAME/MESS Binary Builds for OS X

Thanks Tim.  I did a pull of this build and it now works booting my Nitros9 system.

Bill Nobel
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On Jun 15, 2017, at 9:23 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org<mailto:tlindner at macmess.org>> wrote:

This was a bug fixed 12 days ago.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/2357

Will be included in the June release.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
Here is a screenshot of the error I’m getting: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hyv3781cscdfrb/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-15%20at%209.04.39%20PM.png?dl=0

The image I used has the JVC header of $1202 on it.  I don’t know whats going on.  All the RSDOS images work perfectly.

Bill Nobel
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On Jun 15, 2017, at 8:24 PM, Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com<mailto:barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>> wrote:

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Thu Jun 15 20:38:46 EDT 2017

Hey Tim, Curious question.  Have you been able to boot Nitros9 on the .186 image?  I have tried several different flavours and have no success on OSX, yet Windows version is fine.
I have NitrOS9 booting on version 0.186, but it has other issues I am trying to resolve, like it crashes when I exit a CoCo emulation back to the main system menu.

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