[Coco] MAME

[Wayne Campbell]

I have used MESS before. I still have the installation. I'm not sure what
the differences are between MAME and MESS, but I do know that MESS is
something like a subset? of MAME. I have the roms for all coco flavors (I
think, I'll have to check to be sure). They came in an archive of roms for
MESS. I'm not sure if the Dragon is emulated in MESS, or if I have the rom
for that. I used MESS when I was wanting to play a CoCo1/2 game or other
program not coco3. It really came in handy when I was comparing the
differences in Soko-Ban on the coco2 and coco3 (I am also a sokoban
enthusiast). I started using VCC because it is coco3 specific, and decode
does not run on a coco1 or 2.


On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:39 PM, James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:

> Stevie Strowbridge Wrote:
> > What I plan to do this week, is record a simple "MAME 101" video on the
> > basics of downloading, extracting, placing ROMS in the folder, getting it
> > running, and basic tweaking of the program.
>
> That will be a good service to the community Stevie!
>
> Along those lines, we could use a tutorial and/or a cheat sheet w/ all the
> relevant command line options laid out. HA! I'm not asking for much ... :)
>
> Just an FYI. I have NO qualms at all w/ MAME or people using MAME over VCC.
>
> I use MAME too (and XRoar)
>
> However, from a hobby, spare time, project perspective – I’d rather work
> on VCC than MAME.  IMO, programming MAME is a huge learning curve + more
> complex to work w/ than VCC.  I'm already getting my head wrapped around
> the VCC code.  Other issues are the way MAME breaks things from time to
> time, and the bureaucracy to get your stuff accepted and added. BUT I’m not
> here to bash MAME.  I’ve said it before on FB, I’ll say it again here – the
> emulation for the arcade games Defender and Robotron (my two favorite games
> ever) are absolutely impeccable. The video and sound are SO spot on, I’d
> venture to guess that they are practically indistinguishable from the real
> deal...  if you were to hook up a modern PC to one of those old school RGB
> monitors in an original cabinet -- I'd bet you could barely tell them
> apart, if at all. Same thing could be said for the hundreds if not
> thousands of other arcade games.  It’s an incredible feat actually.
>
> So, I’d like to see VCC updated w/ all the current issues fixed and
> expanded w/ new features. There are things I want to add to VCC that
> probably would never be accepted on MAME. But if folks are waiting for me
> to fix VCC then I highly recommend they learn and use MAME too. It’s going
> to take me time, on the order of one to two years. So, if I make it halfway
> by CoCoFEST 2018, I’ll be doing good.
>
> James
>
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Wayne

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