MESS port..


RobertG

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MESS

A MESS port would be great.

For anyone who doesn't know MESS is the console/computer equivalent of MAME, and has working drivers for tonnes of old z80 and 6502 based systems like the NES, Vectrex, etc.. It even has a PC (CGA) driver.

I don't expect stuff like Megadrive and Snes to ever be usable via MESS (being MAME based it's a bit chunky and slow), but the older stuff should be ok. Especially if you can swap out some of the CPU cores for ARM ones instead of the MAME C ones (the Foon Z80 and a modified PocketNES 6502 one with the additional addressing modes added, etc).

Mmmmm Vectrex..
 
If its got old PC CGA drivers... mmmm Sopwith ;)
Actually, the source is available for that anyway, so it might get done at some point in the very distant future - its a shame its got about 50kb of ASM needed. And that'd be x86 stuff atm :(
 
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