8 Feb
2002
8 Feb
'02
9:27 a.m.
MESS (the Multi Emulator Super System) emulates the
AdventureVision --
see http://www.mess.org for binaries and source. You'll have to search
elsewhere for ROMs. Not surprisingly, all the games that were produced
have been preserved over the years. :)
Sort of OT, MESS is one of the emulators I love to hate. I admire the idea
but it ends up strongly as a jack-of-all-trades-therefore-master-of-none.
Case in point is the C64 emulator, which compared to the others out there,
really sucks and it's not like there's a dearth of technical documentation
on the system to prevent them from improving it.
Even on machines that it is the only (major?) emulator for, it's still not
very good. Take the KIM-1 emulator, for example, which is terrible! It does
work but it would be much better if it emulated KIM's teletype capability
instead of just the keypad and LEDs. And if you use the backdrop, at least
on the Mac version, the LEDs don't work anymore.
In the rush to cover as many (admittedly including some of the very obscure
and therefore worthy) systems they seem to have done a slapdash job on them
in the process.
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