[Coco] Which Coco Emulator for Raspberry Pi?

[Bob Devries]

Hi all,

I just had an "aha" moment...

I did some research, and found a site that suggested that I leen this 
package: libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

Of course, I didn't have that, so I installed it.

Recompiling now...

watch this space :)

Regards, Bob Devries
Daalby, QLD, Australia

On 15/10/2014 9:47 AM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> I should start by saying I haven't made any attempt to run a coco emulator
> on one of my RPIs. I have seen the efforts of Chris Hawks though. It works
> very nice and if you didn't know you would think he was actually running a coco.
>
> He put the PI in an old coco case with a board he (had) made to scan the original coco
> keyboard and convert that to usb for use as a keyboard for his pi.
>
> I don't know all of what he did to get mess to compile but I know he removed
> some exteraneous "stuff" from the source so it would run better on the pi. Maybe he
> could be convinced to post the source files he ended up with and instructions on how
> to compile the "mess".
>
> The Other Frank
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 03:24:14PM -0700, Kandur wrote:
>> Thanks Bob,
>> my secoond question, is it worth trying it?
>> While Raspbian runs very fast on it,
>> would a Coco emulator be painfully slow?
>> How would it handle graphics and windows,
>> use the mouse for joysticks and play games?
>> Anyhow, I bought it for a 24/7 linux web and ftp server,
>> and perhaps to run a torrent client
>> with a big external drive connected to it.
>>
>> Kandur
>>
>> Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 2:51:43 PM, you wrote:
>>> Hi Kandur,
>>> I have not yet been able to get any coco emulator to work on my
>>> Raspberry Pi B/B+ running Raspbian.
>>> The sources for MESS won't compile, and there are no other emulators
>>> available AFAIK.
>>> It is not possible to run Wine, since that requires an X86 processor.
>>> The Glenside newsletter documented a way to do it, but I couldn't get
>>> that to work.
>>> Although I do get closer to working on my Banana Pi running LUbuntu, it
>>> still crashes when started.
>>> Regards, Bob Devries
>>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>> On 15/10/2014 6:41 AM, Kandur wrote:
>>>> Now that I've got my Raspberry Pi 2.0 Model B 512MB working,
>>>> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=403
>>>> which Coco emulator should I install on it?
>>>> Kandur
>>
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