[Coco] Which Coco Emulator for Raspberry Pi?

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:18:03 +1000
Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried again to compile Mame/MESS, but the compile fails with an
> internal compiler error (error 4),as well as complaining about a file
> having an EOF without an EOL(which it claims to fix itself). This was
> on my Banana Pi running LUbuntu, with gcc 4.8. I'm running a build on
> my Raspberry Pi, but that's been going more than 12 hours, and still
> going.
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australua
> 
> 
> 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

    The source tree is at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xprtyrercs03ins/sdlmess0125.tgz?dl=0

Simply download, untar and compile. (Yes, takes a very long time.) I
don't remember all the development libraries that I had to install, but,
when it complains, load the libraries.

It's a bit slower than a real CoCo, but, you can set some options to
speed it up. (like autoframeskip)

I seem to recall that Xroar simply compiled and works. It only runs
under X unless you can find the raspberry-pi specific source.
I saw it once or twice. Cirian??

Oh, and the article is:
http://www.glensideccc.com/data/library/newsletters/gccc32_4nl.pdf


Christopher R. Hawks HAWKSoft
-- 
A cop stopped me for speeding.  He said, "Why were you going so fast?"
I said, "See this thing my foot is on?  It's called an accelerator.
When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine.  The whole
car just takes right off.  And see this thing?  This steers it."  --
Stephen Wright