Re: MacMESS emulation for Apple II

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

jon@i-manila.com (Jon Co) wrote in message news:<a2c2f792.0301091913.843a64c@posting.google.com>...
> webmaster@callapple.org (A.P.P.L.E. Webmaster) wrote in message news:<cd9ac5a8.0301071936.6358addc@posting.google.com>...
> > Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message news:<3E1A025D.3E39C460@swbell.net>...
> > > Hallvard Tangeraas writes ...
> > > > 
>  ....
> > > > 
> > > > I haven't tried it out properly yet, but it seems to work at least,
> > > > which is good of course, but I suspect it to be a lot simpler and more
> > > > basic than stand-alone Apple ][ only emulators which are usually more
> > > > specialized for the task and have more features.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > >      Seems to still be a work in progress. The PC version for an enhanced //e has pretty good sound-- maybe the best of any A2 emu-- and displays color hires fine. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to have a joystick input and it refused to show lo-res in color!
> > > 
> > >      It's nice to have a multi-system emu; but, the Mess Apple //e has a ways to go before it's in the same league as Apple Oasis, AppleWin, and Apple PC.
> > 
> > We also tried it out and other than the sound problems, Mess seems to
> > have the Apple down pretty well.  We also tried the Mac Plus but it
> > did not want to work for us.  So it is obviously still buggy but from
> > what we can wee so far, not bad for an emulator that emulates multiple
> > systems.
> 
> The developer in charge of the apple II stuff in M.E.S.S. has been
> missing in action for a few years now.  A few years back I did try to
> make some work on it to enable color output (everything defaults to
> green screens) and sent my patches back to the developers.  I don't
> know if they got it but they never made it to succeeding releases

Someone on the MESS.org forums said that yes, MESS 0.62 does support
Apple //e in color.  I can't vouch for that, however, as (a) I am
unable to download such a large file onto floppy disks and sneakernet
them to my own PC and (b) MESS and MAME are too slow on my 486/133.

-uso.