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(05-03-2018 01:57 AM)brickviking Wrote:  At least for x49gp, you want to download the source tree from sourceforge.com and look at README.QUICKSTART.
Ehm, no. The Sourceforge version is old and doesn't compile cleanly anymore. There are several forks on GitHub, some of which could be considered official - most notably those by datajerk, maintainer of x49gp from its Sourceforge days, and chwdt, original author of x49gp. Sadly these forks have not been merged yet, but both of them contain the necessary compilation fixes and certain improvements, e.g. my grayscale patch. (Oh, and README.QUICKSTART has been slightly updated and renamed to README.md in both forks to make it show up at the bottom of the repository's GitHub site.)
Both of these people are MoHPC members by the way (datajerk = Egan Ford, chwdt = ecd). There has been an announcement by Egan Ford saying that he is discontinuing his fork in favor of ecd's.
There are some not-yet-public improvements in the pipeline - I sent some patches to the new official maintainer, but he is currently busy with life, so he wasn't able to process them yet. When he does (or when I publish the patches myself), you would get a merge of both forks plus Claudio's fork (which is based on Egan Ford's) plus a load of emulation accuracy and usability improvements. Stay tuned.
(05-03-2018 01:57 AM)brickviking Wrote:  x49gp most certainly has a state file which saves as it goes along, though at least on Linux there's no window decorations, which is why you need the terminal so you can go kill it with Control-C to stop it. There's also instructions on how to make the SD card file that you'll need to create and mount, but I don't know where the default mount folder is.

Once you've compiled x49gp and made a new config file, you can choose to run it from that folder: x49gp config
Alt-F4 or your window manager's equivalent also works (is that Cmd-Q on Mac?), so the terminal isn't actually needed for that. My usability improvements include another way to quit, more usable SD card mounting and unmounting (including switching the SD card while x49gp is running), and then some.
There's also the possibility to use a folder on your disk as SD card - no I didn't add that, it's been there since Egan Ford upgraded the QEMU backend in 2010 (revision 10 in Sourceforge) pretty much forever (sorry, got confused while reading the commit diff; something was changed in that corner of the code, but it wasn't newly added), but it's quite hidden and produces a lot of debug messages in the terminal as well as a huge log file (~3MiB just from viewing the SD card's root folder in the stock firmware's filer). Cleaning that up is part of my patches, of course.
(05-03-2018 01:57 AM)brickviking Wrote:  Good luck. I enjoy using it as it's the only emulator that seems to have any support for the SD card or loading libraries into Port 2. I don't know how good EMU48 is at that.
I use it for Linux compatibility as well as ARM emulation - very handy for debugging (can't test HPGCC3 stuff on Emu48 or similar since that's only Saturn-level emulation, and the physical 50g doesn't have an easy-to-access debug interface). I think Emu48 does support port 2, though it's been a while since I used that program, and I can't test it at the moment. Not so sure about the SD card, but Emu48 can make up for it by being able to import and export objects to/from the stack using menu entries or using drag&drop.
(Slightly edited for historical accuracy and grammar.)
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Calculators for Mac Os - pier4r - 04-12-2018, 11:40 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - Sylvain Cote - 04-12-2018, 01:15 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - Craig Bladow - 04-12-2018, 07:03 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - Claudio L. - 04-12-2018, 10:14 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - zeno333 - 04-13-2018, 01:19 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - 3298 - 04-13-2018, 08:56 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - pier4r - 04-13-2018, 09:23 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - Claudio L. - 04-14-2018, 03:32 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - pier4r - 04-16-2018, 11:47 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - 3298 - 04-16-2018, 03:19 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - brickviking - 05-03-2018, 01:57 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - Sukiari - 04-30-2018, 08:07 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - jbyler - 05-01-2018, 04:25 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - 3298 - 05-03-2018 09:40 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - pier4r - 05-03-2018, 01:14 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - pier4r - 09-13-2018, 01:53 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - pascal_meheut - 09-13-2018, 08:55 PM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - pier4r - 09-14-2018, 05:52 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - ijabbott - 09-14-2018, 07:31 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - Thomas Okken - 09-14-2018, 09:33 AM
RE: Calculators for Mac Os - pier4r - 09-14-2018, 10:35 AM
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