[Coco] MESS ... getting started

[George Ramsower]

Here's what I did tonight that began as working, then stopped working..(I 
should have added this in my first post)

I called up messgui.exe
In a subdirectory called BIOS, I have the coco3.zip
This did work, but my os9boot did not. Don't know why, but at least the 
RSDOS did work.
 Then, I decided to see what the latest, greates MESS would do. I downloaded 
the newest from the mess site.
 Before I unzipped it, I created two new subdirectories under the original 
MESS directory. I moved the original mess to MESSorg and the newest mess to 
the other directory MESSnew.
 I copied all the files from the old mess to the new directory, MESSold, 
including the BIOS/coco3.zip.
 After that, it failed to work.
 So, in mess after I started it, I right clicked on coco3 (ntsc) and clicked 
on properties, then in the software tab, I chose the directory the coco3.zip 
file is in.
 Then clicked on apply.
 The clicked on the coco3(ntsc) and when it tried to run, it came back and 
said:

coco3.rom    NOT FOUND
OPTIONAL disk11.rom   NOT FOUND
OPTIONAL disk11.rom   NOT FOUND

After clicking OKAY it then reports:

MESS encountered a fatal error: Initialization error

Click OK
 and then I'm back to the inititial

 This version is MESS 0.97.1

 The latest from the MESS site is V.123 which doesn't make sense. I would 
think the version number would be higher.

George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower"

>A long time ago, I played with MESS and it did work. Now I can't get it to 
>work.
>
> It reporst no ROM, but I've pointed it to the rom that did work at one 
> time.
>
> coco3.zip used to work.
>
> I don't know enough to tell you much more than this.
>
> Ask some questions or make suggestions and we'll go from there.
>
> I'm using W-XP-Pro SP2
>
> George
>
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