[Coco] Re: M.E.S.S. other 6809-based systems?

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Wed Oct 29 00:38:00 EST 2003


Thanks, I grabbed the other ones you mentioned, raaspec.zip and 
vextrex.zip, both seem to be similar but one plays a game and the other one 
just plays music.




>The answer is that other than the CoCo family of systems, MESS only
>supports two other 6809 systems:
>
>  - Vectrex
>  - Commodore SP9000 (but in this case, the 6809 seems to be a mere
>coprocessor)
>
> > During testing, I discovered that the imgtool.exe in M.E.S.S. 074b is
> > producing bad JVC images.  77K for SS35 ?  No Way.  So I pointed my
>IDE at
> > the imgtool.exe in my 068b directory, and voila.  I have the emulator
>path
> > pointing to the 074b mess.exe.  I have versions of M.E.S.S. dated back
>a
> > year or so.
>
>You should report these bugs in MESS bugzilla; bugs are a lot move
>likely to be fixed when they are reported to the MESS developers.
>
>         http://bugzilla.mess.org/
>
>That having been said, a simple 'imgtool.exe create coco_jvc_rsdos
>foo.dsk' seems to work for me and creates a properly sized image, but I
>am using the CVS version and some major internal overhauls have been
>made to floppy and cassette handling and the bug may have been
>indirectly fixed by them.
>
>
>
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