[Coco] Emulating a 1980 4K CoCo on PC

[Robert Gault]

Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Dec 31, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
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>> Allen Huffman wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> MESS does CoCo 3 and more, but I can never figure out how to escape from it, and end up having to force quit because I cannot remember what brings up the menus. Because of my lack of understanding, I have never been able to seriously use it.
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>> I assume you are using MESS without a gui menu. In that case, you do a Scroll Lock which enables the stock menu. TAB will give you the menu but to quit MESS hit ESC.
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> Exactly.
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> And on a Mac, there is no Scroll Lock so it's some other weird combination and when you ask or Google, everyone says use Scroll Lock. It's just some weird key sequence that I can never remember. I'd probably be fine if I just wrote the differences down on a Post-It(tm) note and stuck it on the monitor.
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> But yeah, that's what has kept me from using MESS. And don't even get me started with the Linux version of MAME on a Raspberry Pi and it's weird differences...
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> 		-- Allen
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>

Try
http://www.mess.org/mess/howto#quit_mess
Looks like quitting with SDL MESS (I think that's for Mac) is INS then Esc

Robert