[Coco] Becker Port support in MESS

[Aaron Wolfe]

It's worth noting that there *are* a couple projects to add a hardware
Becker port to physical cocos, not sure if they will ever become fnerwlly
available but it is a possibility. The FPGA coco 3 has this interface in
"hardware" as much as anything in FPGA can be considered hardware.

Support for the Becker port is already present in VCC and XRoar, so MESS is
the only modern emulator that doesn't provide it.  Since today so many
people are using DriveWire or similar solutions on their physical coco, it
makes sense to me for emulators to be able to do the same, and the Becker
port has become the standard way to do that.
On Aug 8, 2014 11:11 AM, "tim lindner" <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Richard Goedeken <
> Richard at fascinationsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > This is one of the reasons why I suspect they won't accept the patch into
> > their source repo.  The Becker Port was never present in an original
> Tandy
> > machine or any add-on device.  I understand this point of view.  I just
> > wrote
> > the code because I thought it would be useful for some people.
> >
> >
> Don't give up hope. The VHD interface is fake and it has been in the code
> base for a decade.
>
>
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