MESS by Richard Bannister and the MESS Team "MESS is a free emulator that can emulate a variety of systems. The current release (0.1) supports the NES, Sega Genesis/Megadrive, TRS-80, Colour Genie, and Colecovision. It is written in C and the source code is available for download. Ready-made binaries are available for a variety of systems. v0.2b4, a public beta version, is also available. This version also supports the Apple ][ Series, Atari800, Atari5200, Bally Astrocade, Kaypro 2x, PDP-1, Sega Master System/Game Gear, and Vectrex." INFORMATION Homepage: http://www.bannister.com/software/ License: GNU General Public License Release: August 13, 1998 Language: English Platform: AcornOS, AmigaOS, MacOS, MS-DOS, Unix Programmed in: C++ DOWNLOAD MESS MESS v0.2b4 for MacOS [659,197 bytes] MESS v0.2b4 for MacOS (Source) [519,808 bytes] MESS v0.2b4 for MS-DOS [624,130 bytes] MESS v0.2b4 for MS-DOS (Source) [83,403 bytes] MESS v0.1 for AmigaOS (PowerUp) [133,506 bytes] MESS v0.1 for RiscOS [382,480 bytes] MESS v0.1 for Unix (Source) [613,640 bytes] CONTACT Brad Oliver - Coordinator / MacOS Porter / SMS/GG Chris Salomon - Vectrex / PDP/1 Frank Palazzolo - Astrocade Gareth Long - RiscOS Porter Jeff Mitchell - ? Juergen Buchmueller - MS-DOS Porter (v0.2) / Atari 800/5200 / Kaypro CP/M Mathis Rosenhauer - Vectrex / SMS/GG Mats Erik Hansen - AmigaOS Porter - Homepage Mike Balfour - MS-DOS Porter (v0.1) / Apple ][ Richard Bannister - Core Programmer CMPATIBILITY Apple ][ (All) Astrocade (unknown) Atari 800 Atari 5200 Colecovision DOCUMENTATION EXCERPT M.E.S.S. - Multi-Emulator Super System Copyright (C) 1998 by the MESS team Please note that many people helped with this project, either directly or by releasing source code which was used to write the drivers. We are not trying to appropriate merit which isn't ours. See the acknowledgemnts section for a list of contributors, however please note that the list is largely incomplete. See also the CREDITS section in the emulator to see the people who contributed to a specific driver. Again, that list might be incomplete. We apologize in advance for any omission. All trademarks cited in this document are property of their respective owners. Usage and Distribution Licence ------------------------------ I. Purpose ---------- MESS is strictly a no profit project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the many existing console and computer systems. This is done for educational purposes and to preserve them from the oblivion they would sink into when the hardware they run on will stop working. Of course to preserve the systems you must also be able to actually use them; you can see that as a nice side effect. It is not our intention to infringe any copyrights or patents (pending or active) on the original games. All of the source code is either our own or freely available. To work, the emulator often requires ROMs, cartridges, disk images, and/or tape images for the original systems. No portion of the code of the original systems is included in the executable. II. Cost -------- MESS is free. The source code is free. Selling it is not allowed. Charging for the use of MESS is not allowed. III. Images ----------- You are not allowed to distribute MESS and copyrighted images (including but not limited to ROMs, cartridge images, disk images, and cassette images) on the same physical medium. You are allowed to make them available for download on the same web site, but only if you warn users about the copyright status of the images and the legal issues involved. You are NOT allowed to make MESS available for download together with one giant big file containing any or all of the supported images, or any files containing multiple non-associated images. You are not allowed to distribute MESS in any form if you sell, advertise or publicize illegal CD-ROMs or other media containing illegal images. Note that the restriction applies even if you don't directly make money out of that. The restriction of course does not apply if the CD-ROMs are published by the copyright owners. IV. Distribution Integrity -------------------------- MESS must be distributed only in the original archives. You are not allowed to distribute a modified version, nor to remove and/or add files to the archive. Adding one text file to advertise your web site is tolerated only if your site contributes original material to the emulation scene. V. Source Code Distribution --------------------------- If you distribute the binary, you should also distribute the source code. If you can't do that, you must provide a pointer to a place where the source can be obtained. VI. Reuse of Source Code ------------------------- This chapter might not apply to specific portions of MESS (e.g. CPU emulators) which bear different copyright notices. The source code cannot be used in a commercial product without a written authorization of the authors. Use in non commercial products is allowed and indeed encouraged; however if you use portions of the MESS source code in your program, you must make the full source code freely available as well. Derivative works are allowed (provided source code is available), but discouraged: MESS is a project continuously evolving, and you should, in your best interest, submit your contributions to the development team, so that they are integrated in the main distribution. Usage of the _information_ contained in the source code is free for any use. However, given the amount of time and energy it took to collect this information, we would appreciate if you made the additional information you might have freely available as well. . Emulators Index . Front Page . © 1997/1999 Archaic Ruins