And it works fine under Classic on my Power Mac G5 dual 1.8 GHz with Mac OS X 10.4.7.
I set the Z80 speed rate at 200.
I would like to know if you found some free time to port TRS-80 emulator to Mac OS X, please ?
If yes, when do you plan to make available ? If you want, I can translate it in French.
Do you plan to create other emulators, please ?
Regards
Jean-Jacques Cortes
Between my job, EverQuest and the little life I manage to have outside of those two things, I have absolutely no time left for writing shareware anymore. I still intend to do the port at some point, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
The only other emulator I'd ever be interested to write would be an Atari 400/800 one, as I have written several games for that as well.
* Sound
* file launcher front end - launches TOSEC compatible /CMD, /CAS & /BAS files - can sort/sift files by program name, year, author, keyword
* ability to load/save a /BAS & /CMD from OS X directly
* Epson MX-80 Graftrax emulation
* Capture printer output to file
* Disk Util: drag/drop OS X <-->.DMK/.DSK/.JV? w/TRSDOS/NEWDOS/MULTIDOS
* Cut and past directly from OS X into/from emulated environment (cludgey but helpful)
* DMK/DSK/JV? support
* Animated GIF Screen Dump Capture with adjustable overall length and adjust sample times (e.g. 5 second loop with 1 second delay between frame captures)
* Animated Quicktime Screen+Sound Capture with adjustable overall length and adjust sample times (e.g. 5 second loop with 1 second delay between frame captures)
* TRS32 emulator compatible memory/system snapshot save & load (that would be neat)
While I'd love to do some or all of those things, I haven't been able to find the time to write a Cocoa version of the emulator yet, and I don't foresee that happening any time soon.
I'm not saying I'll never do it, but I've been very busy with my job the last few years and I spend the little free time I have playing an MMORPG (EverQuest Mac for those who care).
Unfortunately, only the interface is written in C (less than 10% of the code), the rest is written in 68020 assembly language. So, choosing Carbon over Cocoa wouldn't save me much time. Also, Apple has made it clear that Cocoa is the official environment for Mac OS X and that Carbon is quickly becoming a second class citizen.
there's talk of xtrs being ported to os x on comp.sys.tandy.
no takers yet do to a GUI front end (boy that would be nice) but hopefully there is at least some sound. That's been missing too long from our TRS-Mac's!
I know you mentioned in this forum that you were going to update the emulator for OS X and just wanted to point you to a website that has a Java based TRS-80 Color Computer emulator that is excellent. I figured that if the Color Computer can be emulated in Java, perhaps the TRS-80 could as well.
I'm having trouble running the latest version of the emulator - my system is an LC575 with 36 Mb ram running sys 7.6.1 , I have CFM68k and Macintosh Drag and Drop extensions installed. When I try to start the emulator, my mac reports:
"The application "TRS-80" could not be opened because "Draglib" could not be found."
I thought that Draglib was a part of the Drag and Drop extensions?
I would like to repeat the message from last August about a need for a Model 3/4 emulator for the Mac. I do not think my old PScript files will work on the Model 1 emulator.
I was Just wondering if there will be a Carbon
version ?
I really enjoy the emulator, I still have my Original
Model 1 L2, and the expansion interface with
2 drives and serial card, but it is much more
convenient to run the emulator.
Unfortunately, while it would be easy to convert the interface to Carbon, it is impossible to convert the actual emulator code (68020 assembler). However, I intend to rewrite the interface in Objective-C (to Cocoa) and the emulator in C. I don't know how long this will take, I'm pretty busy with work right now...
Yes! I look forward to being able to run your TRS-80 emulator on my G4 Macintosh with OS 10.2.3! Your efforts are greatly appreciated. I too am nostalgic about the TRS-80. Thank you.
You could always pick up a copy of the Basilisk II Mac emulator. There's a port for Mac OS X. Look on emulation.net, in the Computers/Macintosh section. You'll have to find a ROM, a Google search should turn up something, but I believe you can get System 7.5 free from Apple's Older Software Downloads page at http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
You also get the added amusement factor of running an emulator within an emulator.
Thanks very much, Yves, for all the work on the emulator. My 8 year old son took an interest in the old '80 and now has it in his room, and I was thrilled to find not only your emulator, but a copy of Santa Paravia & Fiumaccio on the web, the biggest, most complex program I ever typed into the '80.
I'm confused by the "Read Me" file, however -- how can I get the program into the emulator? Can I find a virtual disk somewhere and copy the program to it, then read it into the emulator? Disks were way ahead of my '80 -- I never got past Level II and cassettes.
Are there any plans to make a TRS-80 Model III or IV emulator for the Mac OS also? I would really like to start using my III and IV software library on a non-pc emulator.
