I made Raspberry Pi binaries for KEGS and LinApple

Ivan X

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Apr 7, 2013, 8:09:01 PM4/7/13

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Some people had asked me about II-on-Pi, and so I found a couple of candidates, and posted both binaries and compile-it-yourself instructions for them at http://ivanx.com/raspberrypi/raspberrypi_emulators.html

KEGS seems to work fine as long as you feed it a disk image (I don't understand the monitor crash if you don't, but then again I have very little experience with KEGS). I tried it with both GS/OS and ProDOS 8. It says it's simulating around 25 MHz, which I'll still take any day of the week.

LinApple works, but is slow.

I haven't been keeping up on the latest in emulator developments, as Virtual II is my mainstay. What other Apple II emulators for Linux are out there that you like? (If you know something works on Debian or Ubuntu, that would make it an especially good candidate.)

Polymorph

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Apr 7, 2013, 10:26:17 PM4/7/13

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On Monday, April 8, 2013 10:09:01 AM UTC+10, Ivan X wrote:

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> I haven't been keeping up on the latest in emulator developments, as Virtual II is my mainstay. What other Apple II emulators for Linux are out there that you like? (If you know something works on Debian or Ubuntu, that would make it an especially good candidate.)

That reminds me, I compiled GSPort (an updated version of KEGS) on my Rapberry Pi back in February, I must get around to posting the binary somewhere (as well as checking in my modified source):

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/3c7P_K-EJn8

I'm about to go on holidays for a couple of weeks, so it will have to wait until I return. :-(

Cheers,
Mike

Bill Garber

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Apr 11, 2013, 2:16:00 AM4/11/13

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"Polymorph" <mike.a....@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Mike,

I had emailed you a short while ago requesting your Raspberry PI binary
for GSport and had not received a reply. Assuming you either did not get
it, or, it went to a Spam folder, I'll request it again here, since you
are now looking for a place to post it.

I have Petar Puskarich's compiling of the same now but haven't tried it
as yet being I haven't gotten it up and running yet. So much to do, so
little time. Yeah... like The Joker... Rather a lack of motivation and
focus, more like it. Anyway, either email it to me, or I can send you
my info to upload it to my FTP.

Thank you so much,

Bill Garber
http://www.sepa-electronics.com

Polymorph

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Apr 12, 2013, 7:02:54 AM4/12/13

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Hi Bill,

I sent you an email tonight with my current GSport build for the Raspberry Pi attached.

Feel free to make this available to all. :-)

Cheers,
Mike

http://apple2.sytes.net/

Steven Nelson

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Apr 12, 2013, 1:57:19 PM4/12/13

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I have KEGS running on my RPi from ivanx site. Thanks very much.
Runs a little over eff 30MHz. For comparison I would like to run
GSport too. I hope Bill Garber can make Mike's (Polymorph) GSport for
the RPi available soon on his sepa website.

Thanks to all.

--Steve

Bill Garber

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Apr 12, 2013, 4:02:08 PM4/12/13

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"Steven Nelson" <steven...@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
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Upon hearing the word of the Apple ][ advocates:

I have uploaded both Petar Puskarich's and Polymorph's compilation
of GSport for the Raspberry PI to the web site's download section.

I have some text on how to add sound from Polymorph in an email
that I can include if it isn't in the ZIP file. Let me know and
I will copy it out to a TXT file and include it.

Enjoy,

Bill Garber
http://www.sepa-electronics.com

Sean Fahey

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Apr 12, 2013, 4:55:25 PM4/12/13

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On Friday, April 12, 2013 3:02:08 PM UTC-5, Bill Garber wrote:

> Upon hearing the word of the Apple ][ advocates:

Are you sharing the material you got from Don Worth?

Jerome Vernet

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Apr 13, 2013, 3:37:23 AM4/13/13

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Le 08/04/13 02:09, Ivan X a �crit :

> LinApple works, but is slow.

Most of these emulators use SDL and must be started under an XWindows
session. But you can make them work without XWindows, with the frame
buffer driver. I need to remember how i've done it....

For Linapple, for example, it make it run faster.

You can also overclock your RPI (mine run at 900Mhz).

JV

Steven Nelson

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Apr 13, 2013, 2:13:38 PM4/13/13

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On Apr 12, 3:02 pm, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Steven Nelson" <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote in message

I now have Ivan X port of kegs.0.91, Petar Puskarich's and Polymorph's
(Mike S.) ports of GSport running on my RPi (900MHz). For comparison,
all 3 use the same disk images (6 ProDOS, 1 HFS). The 2 gsportx use
the same same config.txt file, the config.kegs looks very similar.
All run about the same eff rate (~30MHz), with greater fluctuation in
gsportx than in kegs. Mouse movement seems smoother in kegs than in
gsportx. None of the 3 will boot GS/OS (6.0.1) with the TCPIP init
active. This is to be expected with kegs, but I was hoping gsportx
would tolerate tcpip. (This could be a configuration problem with the
link layer however.) I do not have sound, so Polymorph's email advice
would be appreciated.

Running from RPi keyboard is better than X11 terminal in OSX. OSX and/
or X11 steal too many command and function keys that never get passed
to kegs/gsportx. I found some work-arounds but not all command-keys
work yet. (e.g., X11 steals command-Q. OSX steals F4. etc,etc)

First impression: I like Ivan X's kegs port better. There maybe
simple config options to improve performance of gsportx.

PS I do not feel savvy enough to compile the source files(s). I would
like a binary for t_pro ;-)

--Steve

Ivan X

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Apr 15, 2013, 1:18:58 AM4/15/13

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On Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:13:38 PM UTC-4, Steven Nelson wrote:

> None of the 3 will boot GS/OS (6.0.1) with the TCPIP init
> active. This is to be expected with kegs, but I was hoping gsportx
> would tolerate tcpip.

According to http://gsport.sourceforge.net/ethernet.html, only the Windows version of GSPort can emulate an Uthernet card (and I've done this successfully in a Windows emulator on a Mac). Also, you need wired Ethernet.

> First impression: I like Ivan X's kegs port better.

Ha, thanks, but I wish I could claim it's my port ;) Plain old KEGS basically compiles out of the box with a tiny tweak.

A2CPM

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Apr 17, 2013, 8:07:22 PM4/17/13

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Hi!

On Apr 7, 8:09 pm, Ivan wrote:
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> I haven't been keeping up on the latest in emulator developments, as Virtual II is my mainstay. What other Apple II emulators for Linux
> are out there that you like? (If you know something works on Debian or Ubuntu, that would make it an especially good candidate.

Followed the instructions on your site for installing both
emulators. I get "segmentation fault" running KEGS. Entering "tar
zxf linapple_rpi.tgz" creates a "linapple" directory making it
difficult to proceed.

Willi

Ivan X

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Apr 17, 2013, 8:18:17 PM4/17/13

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Willi, both things sound odd and I don't have an explanation. They were built for Raspbian. Are you running that, or a different distribution?

A2CPM

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Apr 17, 2013, 9:27:16 PM4/17/13

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Hi!

On Apr 17, 8:18 pm, Ivan X <i...@ivanx.com> wrote:
> Willi, both things sound odd and I don't have an explanation. They were built for Raspbian. Are you running that, or a different distribution?

I'm using "Raspbian 'wheezy”', the first distro listed at "http://
www.raspberrypi.org/downloads". My RasPi is at my friend's place
being powered by his cell phone charger. I won't get serious about
running either emulator until I have my RasPi at home.

Willi

Ivan X

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Apr 23, 2013, 8:13:32 AM4/23/13

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Just FYI I updated the KEGS and LinApple packages at ivanx.com/raspberrypi so that they are a little easier to install. KEGS now provides to_pro (and partls) as well.