[Coco] Question about DriveWire 4 and MESS

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Rick Taylor <coder32768 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get Drivewire 4 working, both in an emulator (MESS or
> VCC, either will do), and I'm running into problems.
> I have downloaded the latest version of MESS from here
> http://www.mess.org/download.php
>
> and I have the latest version of drivewire 4 (the beta) from here
> http://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/beta
>
> I have MESS booting up from the coco3 and DECB1.1 roms, and when I
> boot (ie, type "DOS" from within DECB) from the sdlmess_dwboot.os9
> image, it comes up to the 'development build/not for distribution'
> initial screen for NitrOS-9, and then hangs, no prompt.
>
> One of the reasons why is because I have not applied the
> sdlmess-coco-dwsck-ffe0.patch file to MESS. I am running under
> windows, and have my choice of XP, Vista, or Win7(64 bit) -- this
> machine boots to a couple of different images.
>
> So here's my question: Under Windows, how the heck do you apply the
> patch file? There is no patch.exe in the MESS distribution that I can
> find. Do I go get a copy of MAME or something? Or do I just put it
> somewhere special?
>

It's been a while, but IIRC the patch works fine on Windows, however
since Windows doesn't generally include tools like patch, I think I
just applied it by hand.  It isn't very many changes to make.   You
will want to use version 0136 unless you like figuring things out a
lot.

Tim Lindner created another alternative which maps the emulated
bitbanger to a socket, this was supposed to be accepted into the
mainline MESS at one point and so would be available in prebuilt
binaries.  Not sure where that got stalled at, it does work and it's
pretty slick.

In either case, you will have to use DW4.  Drivewire 3 does not
support using TCP sockets as the communications device, which both of
these patches require.

> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- Rick
>
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