[Coco] MAME 0.169 Not booting NitrOS-9 images

[James Jones]

Sounds like MAME/MESS needs some sort of test suite one must run and pass
before committing changes. Admittedly a LOT easier said than done, given
the number of systems emulated and programs running on each system.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Barry Nelson <
barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:

>  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.
>
> > BootLoop2Dope Doll Neden Hunter bootloop at juggadollslinux.org
> > Wed Jan 20 08:42:51 EST 2016
> >
> > The version of MAME I'm using is 0.169 on Fedora 23 i686. (MAME and MESS
> > has joined code bases).
> >
> > I have tried changing the extension of the NitrOS-9 .dsk images to .os9
> > as suggested... but MAME spits out an "Error: Invalid image" error.
> >
> > I have submitted a bug report to the MAME developers... but this has
> > largely gone ignored.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > I'm using MAME (MESS) until next month... until I can get a CoCo3 off
> > eBay... I got my eyes set on one...
> >
> > First time poster, long time reader. Thanks for this mailing list.
>
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