Apple III emulator for Windows...anyone knows?

T. K.

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Jul 5, 2010, 11:28:08 AM7/5/10

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Does anyone know if there has been an Apple III emulator for MS
Windows so far?
(Of course I know Sara, a one for Mac OS)

Sorry for an inappropriate(?) question in the A2 emulator group. But,
I could not find anything about this through googling, and I think
here's the closest group to ask it (not the very best group though).

Thank you in advance.

David Schmidt

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Jul 5, 2010, 11:44:22 AM7/5/10

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MESS has an Apple III core, but was not particularly usable the last
time I tried, since the keyboard didn't work:
http://www.mess.org/
but it was good enough to do testing of operating system calls on, and
loads faster than making real disks and sending them to a real III.

Steve Nickolas

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Jul 5, 2010, 11:55:54 AM7/5/10

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MESS, but it sucks (it's less compatible than Sara and has all the faults
Sara has).

-uso.

littlejohn918

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Jul 5, 2010, 4:31:45 PM7/5/10

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A decent Apple III emulator is what we all need. It might generate a
little more love for the 'forgotten' Apple.

Steve Nickolas

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Jul 5, 2010, 5:04:48 PM7/5/10

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QFT. I never really "got" the machine well enough to dare to try hacking
one of my ][ emulator backends to handle the /// (but anyone is welcome to
be my guest! they're all open source).

-uso.

RedskullDC

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Jul 6, 2010, 10:44:27 AM7/6/10

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Hi Steve, et al.

"Steve Nickolas" <lyrica...@dosius.ath.cx> wrote in message
news:lyricalnanoh...@macgui.com...

Do you have (or have you compiled) a list of
faults/problems/incompatibilities that
you may have discovered with latest Sara version?

Cheers,
Red

Steve Nickolas

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Jul 6, 2010, 1:38:53 PM7/6/10

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I can't run the latest Sara as I can't run OSX. There is a possibility the
current version has fixed some of these issues, but only someone with a
Macintel would ever be able to find out.

If an emulator were to be written using straight SDL, it would be usable on
Windows, Linux, OSX, and several other OSes... it may be possible to use
some pieces of http://usotsuki.info/sddap021.zip as a base for this,
although it too has issues with compatibility (especially outside of ][+
mode), as it's probably the simplest emulator I know of that has all the ][+
implemented AND is portable. The /// is, after all, a glorified ][+ - it's
just *weirder* than the //e, which is ALSO just a glorified ][+.

-uso.

RedskullDC

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Jul 8, 2010, 6:44:42 AM7/8/10

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Hi Steve,

"Steve Nickolas" <lyrica...@dosius.ath.cx> wrote in message
news:lyricalnanoh...@macgui.com...

>> Do you have (or have you compiled) a list of
>> faults/problems/incompatibilities that
>> you may have discovered with latest Sara version?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Red
>>
>
> I can't run the latest Sara as I can't run OSX. There is a possibility
> the
> current version has fixed some of these issues, but only someone with a
> Macintel would ever be able to find out.

Is it that you can't run OSX period, or that you just have a PPC MAC?

The latest version of SARA is a fat binary, will run on 10.5.x PPC.

Cheers,
Red

Steve Nickolas

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Jul 8, 2010, 7:25:55 AM7/8/10

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RedskullDC wrote:
> Is it that you can't run OSX period, or that you just have a PPC MAC?

The former - I don't have any Macintoshes, or for that matter computers with
actual Intel CPUs (both my PCs are AMD, and my other computer runs off a GTE
65SC02).

-uso.