MacMESS 0.56 Available

[Albert]

http://mess.emuverse.com/download.htmlWe missed this initially, but we felt Macintosh owners would be interested in knowing that a new version of MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) was recently released. This new version, 0.56, brings the Macintosh versions of MESS up to date with the Windows version. MESS emulates a large number of classic game systems, including the Atari 5200, 7800 and 8-bit computers. You can download the latest version of MESS for the Macintosh (Classic and Carbon versions are available) as well as other platforms here. The MESS source code is also available if you want to learn how it ticks and even make contributions to the project.

[liveinabin]

Goody, I'll download that and have a pop at it. Could never get on with MESS tho, it looks as tho it needs intelligence to use.

[VidGameKing]

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originally posted by Albert

 

"(Classic and Carbon versions are available)"

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I'm a pc person could you explain what carbon means? I think classic has to do with the old mac classics, so I'm figureing that it has somthing to do with the processor? or system achitecture?

 

[ 03-06-2002: Message edited by: marialover ]

[liveinabin]

Ah no, you see the new Mac operating system, Mac OSX, is a completely different system and isn't compatible with a lot of 'classic' OS stuff (although it comes packaged with the classic OS as well, sensibly enough).

So a lot of new programs come in a classic and a 'carbon' version, carbon being Mac OSX enabled, that's a pretty crass explanation but you get the idea.

[VidGameKing]

thank you

[Wntermute]

Here's the low-down on Carbon vs. Classic..

 

Over the years, the original Mac Toolbox (the low-level OS stuff) had all sorts of things added to it and tacked on.. generally a big tangled mass of code that was jury-rigged to just "somehow" work.

 

When the OS team was looking into how to get stuff to work under a BSD-style OS kernel, they took a look at all of the OS functions that were a part of the extended Mac Toolbox. Stuff that was hardware-based or obsolete was just tossed, others were streamlined and rewritten. What they ended up with was dubbed Carbon.. a low-level set of MacOS code that got the job done efficiently. That was built into OS 9 and retro-coded to work with OS 8.5 and 8.6.

 

To be Carbon-compliant, a program couldn't use any of the old obsolete code and the functions that were rewritten in the OS had to be updated in an app. Generally, it's relatively simple to update a program to be Carbon-compliant. Anything that uses any of the old 68K code or the obsolete versions of the functions is "Classic" and runs together in a Classic environment. Anything that's Carbon runs in its own programspace on the OS and enjoys the modern memory protection and multitasking.