Re: [Ql-Users] MESS - was Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL

2008-06-24 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Well there is the MESS emulator found at: http://www.mess.org/ Its seems highly unstable at the moment, but it does aim to emulate all the hardware correctly. Malcolm I've downloaded this and the sheer number of files makes its name appropriate. It claims to support QL alright, but in the

Re: [Ql-Users] MESS - was Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL

2008-06-24 Thread Malcolm Lear
Hi Dilwyn Yes it is big! I wrote a few drivers for MAME which MESS is a derivative. It was very easy to remove unwanted drivers and recompile. To use first download the mess0125b.zip binaries and unzip it. You should place the QL ROM's in the roms subdirectory, but I found I could only get

Re: [Ql-Users] MESS - was Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL

2008-06-24 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi, If this does get sorted, and has the right potential, then maybe it could be made available on a CDROM at some time. Well there is the MESS emulator found at: http://www.mess.org/ Its seems highly unstable at the

Re: [Ql-Users] MESS - was Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL

2008-06-24 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Yes it is big! I wrote a few drivers for MAME which MESS is a derivative. It was very easy to remove unwanted drivers and recompile. To use first download the mess0125b.zip binaries and unzip it. You should place the QL ROM's in the roms subdirectory, but I found I could only get the emulator

Re: [Ql-Users] MESS - was Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL

2008-06-24 Thread Malcolm Lear
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I look forward to trying out the 68040 version when you've got it working, Malcolm ;-)) Hmm, I've yet to compile the original yet. Has anyone got hardware info on the Gold card such as memory maps? Malcolm ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] MESS - was Hi Resolution Colour Graphics on a Standard QL

2008-06-24 Thread omega
EightyOne is on the right way to emulate QL. According to the author - it does nothing at the moment, but you could see that it has some support. See: http://www.aptanet.org/eightyone/ I am a bit sceptical about MESS emulating ULA memory contention correctly... let's see who will first make