well right after my post here i found the
VICE emulator for the Commodore line of computers. this is like my second attempt to get it working. the first was with my mandrake 9.1 setup and i had to depend on wine running a windows inplementation of there product for that... needless to say that was a shot in the wind!
so i go there this time, all setup for a tar.gz file to compile and wella! they have one for *nix boxes however they do not mention anywhere they i'll have any luck with linux....
LOL!
i downloaded it and compiled, some of the compiling took forever but it compiled so i said, "ok, what the hey" and it's directions said to run one of the following commands:
Code:
he following programs are included:
- x64, a C64 emulator;
- x128, a C128 emulator;
- xvic, a VIC20 emulator;
- xpet, a PET emulator;
- xplus4, a PLUS4 emulator;
- xcbm2, a CBM-II emulator;
- c1541, a stand-alone disk image maintenance utility;
- petcat, a CBM BASIC de-tokenizer.
i've done both the x64 and the x128 (expecting nothing, perhaps a gpf some sort) and immediately a dialog box comes up showing a yee old commodore 64 screen that i'm sure i have not seen since i left high school.
so i said ok, if your for real, take this:
Code:
10 PRINT "PERRY"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
that was fine - it ran! and it did it run like a nut case on steriods... no...! it ran just like i had a real commodore 64 (you can see the way it's painting the screen and everything.
check it out!
what a laugh!
- perry
ps.
now if i can only figure out where the "break-key" button is....?
You know what would be cool!
So far, I've got snes9x with openGL support running great for all those SNES games. I'm working on getting together an Apple II emulator, although the Apple is still sitting right next to my Linux Box and fully functional, mostly to try to finish a game I started over 12 years ago that my little sister erased (after being warned about the dangers of floppy disks and magnets). This is a real pain, because you need to find rom files for the system as well as the disk images. Looking through the Debian list, there's an Atari800 emulator, but this also needs system ROMs. There's also the MAME/MESS projects for arcade machines...
ROTFL!
