[Coco] Coco '4'

[Christopher Hawks]

tim lindner wrote:
> Christopher Hawks <chawks at dls.net> wrote:
> 
>>   A large group spoke at great length at the (16th annual) last CocoFest
>> about an emulator to be our 'Coco4'. We agreed that an xmess port would be
>> a good starting point. We'd create a port that would just be various Cocos
>> (and maybe Dragons) and leave out the rest of the emulations. (The xmess
>> executable is 8.5 megabytes.)
>>
>>   Boisy knows one of the developers (Coco stuff, I think). If (s)he could
>> supply us with a list of the modules needed for Coco emulation, we could
>> see about writing some Makefiles (etc) for a simple to use and configure
>> Coco-only port of xmess.
> 
> I am that person.
> 
> xmess is dead. sdlmess is where all the action is.
> 
> As a first step, before any design documents have been produced, get
> sdlmess from the sdlmame web site and try to compile it.
> 
> http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163
> 
> I'll want to wait until the design docs are done before we start pairing
> down the makefiles.

Tim & Phill:

	Thanks for stepping up! I'll grab sdlmess. (I'm currently using xmess-0.97.)

	I wanted to rattle some cages and get things started.

-- 
Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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