> ProjectMESS now allows you to try each combination of options (from the drop-down
> menus in the Tech Info section for these systems) and see which additional hardware
> and options result from each configuration.
> In my opinion, this feature can be of great help when you want to know which options
> to use from command line: depending on the chosen expansions, indeed, emulated
> machines can have no floppy options or can have a dozen of them (e.g. if you connect
> a sufficient number of Commodore drives through their serial ports), and it is quite
> difficult to keep track of the additional options which become available in each
> case.
> By using the pages of projectMESS, on the other hand, it is a lot simpler to find out
> how you can connect e.g. 5 floppy drives and 2 IDE hard disks to a C64 through its
> IEEE48 expansion, or how you can have three different screens attached to a Macintosh
> IIx through its NuBus expansions (even if you must be warned that the scripts still
> give not 100% correct options if you e.g. connect multiple devices in series, and
> then you remove the first device without removing the remaining ones...)
>
> Have fun!
An idea migh be that the result page of the "configurator" shows you the full CLI command to be entered in MESS to get THAT configuration.....
The first Italian MAME resource at
www.progettoemma.net
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