David Schmidt

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.