[Coco] Mess Question

[tim lindner]

Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:

> tim lindner wrote:
> > Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Richard wrote:
> >>> I want to install Mess on my Linux OS. I went to the site, but it seems
> >>> that things have changed. Also My install is Ubuntu which is Debian
> >>> based and all the MESS file I have encountered seemed to be RPMs. It
> >>> would really nice if I could emulate a CoCo on my Linux Box. I am truly
> >>> ignorant about this. TIA
> >> What version of Ubuntu are you running?
> >>
> >> xmess and it's other packages are in the 'multiverse' repository:
> > 
> > xmess stopped being updated about a year ago.
> > 
> > SDLMESS is currently the most popular Unix MESS project still being
> > updated.
> 
> I know, but if I do an 'apt-cache search sdlmess', I get nothin'. What's
> the latest *nix version? I think I'm running .106, which I believe is
> the latest in the Ubuntu repositories.

The current version is 0.117.

> There is a binary named 'xmess.SDL', but I don't know if that's the same
> thing or not.

It's not. That's xmess ported to the SDL platform.

SDLMESS is the command line Windows version of MESS ported to the SDL
platform.

The zipball can always be found here:

http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163

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tim lindner
tlindner at macmess.org                                              Bright