[Coco] Becker Port patch for MESS 0.152s

[Richard Goedeken]

Hello everyone,

I have working prototype of this now.  I modified a source build of the latest
release of MESS to include Becker port support.  It was actually quite a bit
of work.  The sdlmess patch on Aaron's page was helpful as a starting point
but I had to rewrite basically everything and grok all these crazy constructs
in MESS to make it work.  The underlying MESS interfaces are completely
different (it's all C++ now) and this patch implemented something other than a
Becker port anyway (it only worked with the patched OS9).  Then I had to
figure out that my HDB-DOS binary (which does support the Becker port) didn't
implement the drivewire protocol correctly.  I think I got the bad ROM off of
a link on Cloud 9's website.  The working one I downloaded in the
hdbdos-20130922.zip file in this page:

http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/snapshots/

The binary which works is hdbdw3bc3.bin.

It's not quite ready to submit to the MESS developers for merging; in particular:

1. I haven't built in under Win32 yet, and I know that winsock is slightly
different than POSIX berkeley sockets, so it will probably take some #define's
to make it work in Windows.

2. It only connects to port 65504 on the local host.  I do have a system
configuration gui option to enable/disable the port, but I don't see any way
for me to add a free text field (for hostname or port number) to allow the
user to configure this.  Does anyone else have a suggestion for this?

But it's mostly done, and it works!  I connected to the local DW4 server and
ran the latest build of my Dynosprite demo.

Richard


On 03/08/2014 09:56 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> 
> Richard, the patch is on Aaron's CocoCoding site. He may be able to tell
> you more but I'm not sure. Here's a link to the page, it's next to the
> bottom on his DW4 download page:
> 
> https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/download
> 
> 
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