Re: Crazy idea

[Andrew Hogan <andrew@andrewandcindy.com>]

J. Vernet wrote:
> Le 07/08/2012 23:01, chausenbo@googlemail.com a écrit :
>> Had a somehow crazy idea and would like to hear your thoughts:
>> How about running a Raspberry Pi in an Apple II
>> (http://www.raspberrypi.org/)? May be on the back of an Apple II card?
>>
>> - It could emulate an 6502 and you get a modern accelerator card (like a
>> ZipChip)
>> - It could parse the USB and the SD card to the Apple II and it would be
>> something like the awesome CFFA
>> - It could enable the Apple II to connect via HDMI to modern HD TVs
>>
>> I guess you can think of a lot of more good applications.
> 
> The Pi can run pretty well an Apple II emulator under Linux, I made a 
> build of one Apple II emulator (LinApple) and it's working pretty well.
> 
> Jerome
>

Had a bit of hard luck trying to get Pi to run LinApple.
tar wouldn't unpack the linapple-src_2a.tar.bz2 package
stated: data integrity error when decompressing,
but, same package was successfully decompressed on XP
using WinRAR; then, ftp-ed the package over to Pi one
decompressed file at a time.
sudo atp-get install libsdl1.2-dev kept saying: unable to fetch
some archives, so, although sudo apt-get install update --fix-missing
worked, keeping the system stable, when I did 'make' within 'src'
the script told me: fatal error: SDL/SDL.hi No such file or directory

If anyone has any insight into why this indeavor blew up in my
face and blew most of my day, please help. I'd like to get my
Pi running the LinApple and eventually get the game port
mapped through GPIO - with a bit of 'middle' hardware to
accommodate the differences between GPIO and Apples
game port IO current/voltage specs

Thanks!