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Re: Apple /// software



On 11/4/2011 3:12 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
On Nov 4, 10:13 am, "Marc S. Ressl"<mre...@gmail.com>  wrote:
On Oct 31, 5:43 pm, Egan Ford<dataj...@gmail.com>  wrote:
I probably shouldn't promise things that are completely in the air,
but I'm planning to emulate the Apple /// in OpenEmulator after the
Apple IIc :-).

Marc.-

Nope, don't promise that yet. ;-)

I was hoping you'd say that.  To have a truly robust /// emulator
would be awesome.  It's a shame that the Sara source code is not
available in addition to MESS.

Sara isn't available, but in talking with the Apple /// MESS driver developer, he based it on Sara (rewriting a fair amount at the same time). Sometimes developers just don't agree with one another. ;-)

BTW, I got MESS working on my Mac, it was very easy to compile and
use.  However it is a bit cumbersome and it's lacking a lot of
documentation (e.g. how to swap floppies).

Yep, I threatened to submit some updates as I was playing with the code a while ago, too. But it's much easier to run via MESSUI, which lets you manage floppies. But since I haven't gotten the keyboard working yet, I don't really have a need to swap... everything has to work on one disk since I don't really have a way to interact with it. But it is useful to test display attributes or SOS calls, for example.