[Coco] MAME 0.169 Not booting NitrOS-9 images

[BootLoop2Dope Doll Neden Hunter]

> Oh great, I wonder what those other devs have broken now…  I guess it's time

> for me to jump back in and fix stuff again. Can you send me the image you are

> trying to use? I will try to either fix the Mame code, find a work around, or

> recommend a different version of Mame/Mess for you to run. Possibly a few of

> the above. I think the Mame/Mess release schedule is much to aggressive. The

> other coders put to much priority on including the "next new thing" in their

> release, and don't spend enough effort fixing bugs and making sure they don't

> break existing code. Mess version v0.150 (Sep 18 2013) should work reasonably

> well, if you can try that.

I tried the ones from Sourceforge. I *could* try an older version... if 
I can dig up an older RPM from somewhere.

DriveWire 4 sometimes boots it... but then segfaults about 60% of the 
time, if I use the customized coco3dw1 romset.



> Generally when MAME/MESS does not like an .os9 disk it is because the size of
> the file does not match the OS-9 info in LSN0. So the question is what images
> are you trying to mount and what url is their source. I can easily test an image
> and tell you what is causing the problem. It is not likely that the version of
> MESS/MAME is involved.
>
> You will find that many disk .os9 files are not complete in that empty portions
> at the end of the disk are missing.
>
> There is no reason to stop using MAME/MESS after acquiring a real Coco3. You
> will find that it is very convenient to use MESS in conjunction with your Coco
> to move files to disks and do debugging with the MESS debugger. You will also
> want to use Drivewire so that your Coco can talk to your PC.
>
> Robert

Well... dunno what's going on. I downloaded them from Sourceforge.

And I'm not gonna stop using MAME/MESS after I get my real CoCo. I have 
some other uses for it... Including using DriveWire... which I have 
installed. Luckily I have a standard serial port (and 8 USB, but I know 
it's not recommended for DW) to make some neat setup...

Thanks a ton...