[Coco] Mess is a mess.... again....

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 13:09:35 EST 2016


On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net> wrote:
>     I had a chance to do a little testing and there is a BIG problem.
> Mess only works with 35 track single sided disks.
>
>     DECB works just fine, but, none of my os9 disks will work. The file
> coco_dsk.c in the (v0.153 that I use) formats directory has disappeared.

Is was moved to another folder last year:
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/1c1860499f41efcf7df6fee3adda6d1557c31c35
It is here now:
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/tools/imgtool/formats/coco_dsk.cpp

> That was the file that supported jvc and os9 files. The jvc files have
> the jvc_dsk.cpp file to support them (but is does not work if there is
> ANY VALID header). Our dsk files are also supported by jvc_dsk.cpp. Good
> thing because dsk_dsk.cpp requires a header for their disks.
>
>     Since OS9 files are apparently no longer supported by mess,
> rm -r mame0.170 !!

They have a bug tracker here:
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues

Tormod


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