[Coco] MESS CoCo Emulation

[Robert Gault]

Frank Swygert wrote:
> I'd just like a clarification: MESS and MESSUI appear to be the same thing,
> except that MESSUI has a different (better) User Interface -- correct?
>

Pretty much. The current MESS does not have a gui interface at any level, main 
program or emulation. The program is mess.exe.
Private support for the gui version of MESS can be found at
http://messui.the-chronicles.org/
This version of mess has both mess.exe and messui.exe. The first has a gui at 
emulation level only. The second has a gui for both the master and emulation levels.
 From my point of view on a Windows system, the gui interface makes it much 
easier to set parameters, and mount disks, cart, ROMs, etc.

> Anyone pared MESS down to just CoCo emulation? That along with just enough of
> Linux to boot and run the emulation (well, you'd need some utilities for disk
> copying and such) would be a good "CoCo" distribution... along with a customized
> GUI for utilities and launching emulation...
>

There is sample source code to compile just coleco emulation but no examples or 
attempts at compiling just coco emulation. Are you volunteering Frank? :)

Robert