[Coco] mess newbie

[David Ladd]

On Feb 12, 2015 3:23 PM, "Nick Marentes" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 13/02/2015 7:15 AM, David Ladd wrote:
>>
>> The thing I have found with MESS is if you use any ROM image that has
been
>> modified in any way that doesn't match the original ROM that has been
>> dumped out of the CoCo 1, 2, or 3.  MESS will complain about the ROM's
not
>> matching its internal hash for them.
>>
>> MESS looks by default for a zip file called by the name of the machine
you
>> are trying to start.
>>
>> Example if you are trying to start a CoCo2B you will need a zip file in
the
>> ROM's folder that is called coco2b.zip which contains the ROM files.
>>
>> I know there are a few sites that have the zip files on them so you could
>> download and put in the ROM's folder, but sadly you will have to google
for
>> them as I myself don't have the links handy right now.
>>
>> Basically though you should be able to do a google search for coco2.zip
>> coco2b.zip and coco3.zip  then just put those zip files in the ROM's
folder
>> for MESS and it should be able to start.
>>
>> I hope that helps you at this given time.
>>
>
> Thanks. Got it running.

That's good you got it going :D

>
> Now to get rid of that god-awful DOS front end!

Well I have to run it from the command line most of the time as I run with
a modified becker ROM file with offsets so I can use both HDBDOS and
Nitros9 on the same image.

Since MESS complains about the ROM image having wrong hash I have to over
ride it from the command line.

>
> Next challenge is the Windows GUI. I didn't like the screenshots I saw
but it was better than using that DOS front end.
>
>
> Nick
>
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