That could be built with Apple's great free tools provided with MacOS X.
I wanted a full screen mode in addition to the windowed mode of Derek's port.Īlso, Derek's port is dependent on Code Warrior™, and I wanted an emulator Including full cartridge and machine support, hard drives, etc. However, I really wantedĪn emulator that could keep up with all of the features of the Atari800 emulator, Good port of Atari800 for OS9 and Carbon on OS X. Why did I write another Atari emulator for the Mac? Derek Ledbetter has a Also thanks to Al Yarusso at AtariAgeįor mirroring the binary and source, and MacUpdate for mirroring the binary.Īnd of course Dan and the rest of you who have sent in invaluable bug and testing Visit their website at for full info on theirĮmulator core.) Many thanks to Daniel Noguerol for his hard work on the originalĪnd ported versions of the R: driver. The whole Atari800 team for their invaluable support and suggestions. Special Thanks go to Jacek Poplawski for writing the general SDL port,Īnd the entire libSDL team that has made this port possible. Require ROM image files from the original Atari systems, which are not included Separately, but includes it within the application package. It does not require libSDL to be installed
To Mac OS X, and added a full native Cocoa interface, including Preferences, I have ported the SDL version of the Atrari800 emulator
I found the Virtual PC files on Macintosh Garden.Īll that site lists for Mac ZX emulators is MacSpeccy (Mac Spectrum).This is the home page of the Macintosh OS X Port of David Firth's FantasticĪtari 800 Emulator. For emulating a PC, all I had working prior to this was DOSbox which was pretty much hand-entered paths in DOS to do anything. Simple steps, but a pretty major one for me. Also got at least one of my TI99 DOS emulations to run. From there I got a version of EightyOne that was an.
I managed to get Virtual PC 5 to run and recognize a a Windows ME install taken from a VPC4 download. I'm happy to report some progress despite all my grousing. My compliments and thanks for recreating these wonders of early computer technology for old geezers like myself to play around with! As if! I managed to program the originals using BASIC and never quite "got" ML, lol. But I guess if it t'were so easy to emulate a ZX, I could as easily create my own flavor. Don't take me wrong, that just strikes me as quite funny.
It might indeed require me to upgrade my own hardware to more easily support an up-to-date emulator of a 1980's computer. I mentioned I was using PPC G4 in my first post to this thread, and wasn't waved off, so I just started downloading all the flavors to try them. I don't expect any developer like yourself to run out and build a system to support an old platform. If I ever find my solution, I'll post it here for posterior reasons! Take this more as the ramblings of an old dog trying to relearn his old tricks than a further plea for help. Eventually I'll find a more point'n'click solution for whatever platform it ends up being. So, off I go on a renewed quest for a few days. It's selfish to expect continued support for a Mac that's now a decade old itself.įunny thing, I don't do all that much emulation to start with! But when I do want to, I find myself limited in what I'm trying to accomplish. If I upgraded to intel Mac or just bought a cheapy WinPC laptop, all my emulator wants would be swiftly granted. It's the same way with the TI99 and the old MacV9T9 emulator I use for that computer.Ī lot of my issues are using a "vintage" PPC Mac to do all this. Till I want to play with extended memory, then it's found to be lacking and I go looking again. So I stick with ZXSP, which is a bit dated and limited but works fine and scratches my ZX-itch. But what I have to do to just play a game I wrote for the TS1000 makes double-emulation too much bother.
Getting a flavor of Windows would be nice to have beyond my ZX81 emulator quest, since Classic 99, one of the better TI99/4A emulations is also Windows-based. I keep the folders around and give it another go some other day when I get the urge again. Oh, I can fuddle my way there, but there's always a stumbling block. Which to me is just another app to learn the ropes of both it and DOS/Windows. So now I'm downloading and trying various flavors of PC/Windows emulators. And maybe using os9 Classic, which is in itself yet another layer of emulation. Things such as emulating a PC in order to run the ZX81 emulator. It's a bit amazing sometimes the hoops to jump through to emulate an older and far simpler computer, such as the ZX81 et al. It kinda goes back to my earlier observation.