[Coco] MAME

[Steve Strowbridge]

There has been a lot of talk about MAME lately, especially on the Facebook
page.

I am the furthest from an expert, but I am working with it now, and despite
some of the less than elegant ways certain things are done with the UI, the
wealth of features, and the down right rock solid emulation and
compatibility it offers make it a very useful tool.

There will always be different strokes for different folks, but I'm
converting into a MAME user, and hopefully soon, MAME lover.

What I plan to do this week, is record a simple "MAME 101" video on the
basics of downloading, extracting, placing ROMS in the folder, getting it
running, and basic tweaking of the program.

This will be based on the latest stock version of MAME from the main
distribution site, and will be showing how to do it in Windows, since
that's what I run, but the Mac implementation shouldn't be much different.

What I'd like to know from people with a little more knowledge, experience
and expertise would be:

Where's the single best place to get all the CoCo specific ROM files to
place in the ROMS folder, I've gotten them from the Color Computer Archive
in the past, is that the best/only place? is there another, are any
updated, are there more we need to know about?  A simple, single location
for all of these would be best for the benefit of creating a tutorial video.

Are there some CoCo specific sites/repositories/forks we should know about?
If so, I'll put them on my CoCo links page, and mention them in the video,
but I don't want the primary "101" video to deal with a lot of variants,
although I'll be happy to mention them and link to them.

Any other relevant and useful information anyone can think of to throw my
way I'll be sure to include in the video.


Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
wrote:

> On 6/06/2017 12:34 PM, Melanie and John Mark Mobley wrote:
>
> I thought I had MAME but it was cocomess form Christopher Hawks.
>> I just installed MAME in my Linux Mint Mate.  Now I have to learn how to
>> use
>> it.
>>
>
> MAME & MESS have now merged into the MAME project. That makes perfect
> sense, but I still don't really understand why they don't maintain separate
> targets (binaries) for MAME and MESS...
>
> Anyway... I'm not familiar with the features of ZBUG but I'm confident
> that the watchpoint and breakpoint features of MAME are vastly superior,
> not to mention multiple simultaneous memory views, trace function, and
> completely unobtrusive nature of the debugger.
>
> There are a few minor annoyances in the UI aspects, but they're easy to
> overlook given the other advantages IMHO.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Mark McDougall
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