Windows users might be interested in a new version of MESS that was released on October 31 (sorry, I forgot to write about this one):
http://www.mess.org/download.php
It includes a ton of updates to the Macintosh emulation component of MESS.
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2010, November 15 - 3:15pm
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New MESS: October 31
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2010, November 16 - 12:15am
#2
wow, I'd never heard of MESS before, but it looks super cool!
2010, November 16 - 1:18am
#3
This is probably the most accurate Mac emulation there is so far (though it's by no means perfect), and it's being continually improved!
2010, November 16 - 3:58am
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There are also Mac and LInux versions of MESS, but I am not sure if they are updated as frequently. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the Mac version is NOT.
We've been talking about MESS here:
http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6563
That includes a description of what is new in the latest version, as well as some comments from both the Mini vMac and MESS developers. That includes some collaboration!
The very keen might also want to check out the daily builds of MESS that are available:
2010, November 16 - 4:03pm
#5
@watchsmart:
Either use a daily build or compile it yourself from SVN. It's easy enough, just install Xcode Tools, check out from SVN, cd to the directory, and run such a command:
make TARGET=mess OSD=sdl PTR64=1 OPTIMIZE=3 -j4 all
to compile it. don't include PTR64=1 if your computer is 32-bit. -j4 speeds up compilation on computers with two or four cores.
2010, November 17 - 3:26am
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Balrog,
Sounds easy enough to me. I'll give it a shot!
And, indeed, there is some incentive to building. From the dev:
"The floppy problem on the Plus/SE/Classic is fixed in the latest daily builds. Also, the Classic II and IIsi are showing signs of life (they show a blinking ? disk now but don't recognize any media for some reason).
SWIM/FDHD progress is happening on my local system as threatened. Nothing cool to show yet with it though"
MESS only posts official builds every six months or so, for what it's worth.
2010, November 17 - 3:46am
#7
Ehh, more frequently. They post official builds whenever there's a release of MAME -- this can be quite frequent, or not that frequent at all.
SWIM/FDHD support, once it's available, will be very useful.