Date   : Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:19:03 +0100 
From   : "Jefferyes, G S" <g.jefferyes@...>
Subject: yet another BBC emulator? (New MESS BBC emulator will have 8271 d

Well yes.. I wanted to write my own BBC emulator, so I found a good place
to write it, and now MESS (http://mess.emuverse.com) has a BBC driver.

It is open source and cross-platform. OK so it only has a BBC B driver right
now.

But watch out for the next MESS release as it now has 8271 disc
support!!!!!! (read only)

And I am very happy to work with anybody else that wants to work on making
this emulator much better.
(Actually I did not write the 8271 code for this driver.. somebody else
did.:o)

PS. MESS also has a built in debugger.

GordonJ
http://mamerominfo.retrogames.com/messbbc/



>Why yet another BBC emulator? What is it about BBC micro enthusiasts
>that makes them all want to write their own BBC emulator? Why not
contribute
>to one of the existing emulators, if it doesn't do what you want?
>
>I would love to see one good, open source, cross-platform emulator for the
>BBC micro, which could cope with the differences and allow customisation of
>the emulated hardware (BBC, Master, B+ 128, electron, 8271/WD1770/1772 disc
>chips, Econet, etc). It would be even better if it had an assembler-level
>debugging mode, and could fake a DFS to allow use of the host platform's
file
>system. I know that none of the emulators out there support all of this.
But
>why write yet another one, rather than add features to an existing one?
>
>a.