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Re: ok, so I just tried mess for the first time
08/20/13 02:40 PM
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> > tried a simple program on the C128 that I wrote myself as a teenager, and not only
> > was the screen messed up (it had like a left and right side) but it seemed awful
> slow
> > and the music stuttered.
> > Tried N64... slow as heck.
> >
> > My question is, which systems is MESS actually useful for, as in near perfect, full
> > speed, emulation?
> >
> > As buggy and slow as c128 is, I didn't bother trying C64, but I was wondering if
> any
> > devs have looked at the vice source code for these systems? I use winvice myself
> and
> > the emulation seems pretty close to perfect.
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> MESS's C128 is basically unsupported. C64 is quite compatible, however. Fastloaders
> work, MIDI cartridges work, the Z80 CP/M cartridge boots up fine. Unfortunately it's
> also very demanding on the CPU at the moment - there are some very obvious ways to
> get the speed back, but Curt's going for perfection first, fast second, and C128
> somewhere later ;-) VIC-20 runs well and is reasonably fast too - several recent
> pieces of new VIC-20 software were created on MESS because our debugger is awesome.
C64 emulation in MESS is quite good. Only the VIC-II part is completely a "MESS"... just try a demo and/or an intensive raster effects game and cry... C1541 emulation is good too, even if some turbo-disk loaders doesn't seem to work. SID sound seems perfect to me.
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