Thank you for you review. I see the biggest problem is resolution 512x192.
It absolutely flat! He who made it, he probably never saw real Sam ;-)
Here is "who" actually contributed (taken from messnew.txt):
1. Sam Coupe (preliminary) [Lee Hammerton]
2. Updated Sam Coupe to use WD179x code (same as WD1772). [Kev Thacker]
And what about WinCoupe sources? Where can I get source code of this GNU GPL
software?????
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(Note that new ASCD 0.81 for DOS does exists but is unavailalbe due to GNU
GPL - I used some code which can't be distributed in source form under GNU
GPL ;-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: MESS & Sam Coupe emulation
> >Have you seen MESS, a derivate of MAME?
> >They say it emulates Sam Coupe, with all aspects 100% right. I haven't
see
> >it, but it seems at least that we have the third Sam emulator on the
scene.
>
> I downloaded a copy of MESS .37b10 for my Mac. Note that the Windows and
> Unix versions are up to .37b13, though I don't know if any Sam-specific
> changes have been made during those last three versions.
>
> It works, and it's pretty good, though I wouldn't say anywhere near 100%
> right. There is no display of the border at all, for example. Instruction
> timings appear to be *completely* wrong[1]. The keyboard works, sort of,
> but doesn't do any kind of translations for punctuation keys. The sound
> chip only partially works and it can't play samples at all[2].
>
> Running software... it loads plain or gzipped .DSK files (haven't tried
> using other formats). MNEMOdemo1 part 2 crashes, just like it does on
early
> SimCoupe. Even MNEMOdemo2 crashes, which I'd previously thought was
> comparatively emulator-friendly. And for some reason, so does MasterDOS.
> Conversely, Codigo's Juggler demo does work, which doesn't on early
> SimCoupe. Other programs I've tried will generally run but show some
visual
> defects due to timing issues.
>
> Still, quite an impressive effort. Somebody could improve it (quite a lot
> accuracy-wise, and also the UI of the Mac version) but personally I don't
> plan on spending time hacking around at MESS code. I wonder if we'd
> recognise the name of whoever contributed this?
>
> Andrew
>
> [1] Probably an accurate Z80B, if it were running with uncontended memory
> at 6.0MHz. Which we know it isn't.
>
> [2] The problems are to do with waveform sounds and are an already
> documented problem with MAME's implementation of the soundchip.
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