[Coco] Before I try to reinvent the wheel, has anyone made a "boot to coco" raspberry pi system?

[Kip Koon]

Hi Glen, et. all,
I haven't tried MAME yet.  Several Years back I tried MESS with a GUI frontend that made it really nice to explore the many varied versions of computers of our youth.  Not realizing just how many retro computers there were and spending literally days and weeks scouring the internet for all the roms to bring these retro computers to life, it became quite difficult to use the few favorites I had found because of the giant graphical folder display similar to Windows Explorer.  
I just took a quick glance to find a MAME GUI x64 for my Windows 7 x64 Enterprise OS and found a bunch.  I have downloaded MAME 0.182 just now.  Would you point me into the right direction for a really feature rich GUI for MAME?  Any help is much appreciated.  Thank you in advance.  Take care my friend.  

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Glen Hewlett
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 11:07 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Before I try to reinvent the wheel, has anyone made a "boot to coco" raspberry pi system?
> 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I wrote up a blog on compiling MAME on the Raspberry Pi about a year ago, it’s what actually lead me to getting back into the CoCo.
> I wanted to see if the latest MAME (at the time) would run the CoCo 3 at 100% on a Raspberry Pi.  I wanted to use the latest MAME
> because it incorporate MESS and I like the Disk image tools and wanted the latest on the Raspberry Pi.  During my testing I starting
> playing more and more with the CoCo emulation on MAME and this got me hooked on the CoCo again.  Now I’ve got my old CoCo3
> out with an HDMI adapter hooked up to a Colour monitor and I’m having a blast (except when debugging some new progress for
> hours and hours gets me nowhere) porting Pac Man to the CoCo3.  It’s so much faster to learn things now with the great help of the
> friendly users on this email group and other sources on the internet.  Back in the 80’s there were BBS’s, a few books, user groups and
> magazines but that was about it.
> 
> Anyways this link to my blog might be useful if someone wants to compile MAME on a raspberryPI:
> https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/compile-mame-0-171-on-a-raspberry-pi-2/
> <https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/compile-mame-0-171-on-a-raspberry-pi-2/>
> 
> If you want to see my progress on the port of Pac Man to the 6809 it starts here:
> https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/zilog-z80-to-motorola-6809-transcode-part-001/
> <https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/zilog-z80-to-motorola-6809-transcode-part-001/>
> 
> Cheers,
> Glen
> 
> 
> > On Feb 7, 2017, at 3:51 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Feb 7, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> "PS - I already called dibs on the name "CoCoPi", though."
> >> Ok, then I call dibs on "Cocoa Pie" :-)
> >
> > DRATS! I like that better. It makes me hungry. Pi jus makes my brain hurt. But, unlike Pie, Pi never runs out...
> >
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