Best Mac emulator?

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kolbeck
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Re: Best Mac emulator?

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One of the lesser known available for Mac - https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

It can emulate zx80/81 and ZX Spectrum.
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Re: Best Mac emulator?

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I've started to used NO$ZX emulator under DosBox on my Mac.

It works great, and has a great debugger built in.
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kolbeck
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Re: Best Mac emulator?

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XorA wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:11 pm Works fine for me! (2.3.11)

Built against libsdl 1.2 installed using homebrew.

Had to edit sdl_main.c and sdl.h to remove the SDL/ from include statements.

But other than that it runs and can load games.
I had to tweak the Makefile.OSX as well to get it to build properly on M1:
Change:
CFLAGS+=-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -arch i386 -arch x86_64
to
CFLAGS+=-mmacosx-version-min=13.2
and
Change:
LDFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -arch i386 -arch x86_64
to
LDFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=13.2
Also, replace -Wl,-framework, SDL with -lSDL in LIBS
LIBS=-L/opt/homebrew/lib/ -lSDLmain -lSDL -Wl,-framework,AppKit -Wl,-framework,Cocoa -Lsndrender -lsndrender
But now it compiles without any problems and runs fine on M1 Mac

/Thomas
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zxinfo-file-browser - Cross platform app to manage your files
https://zxinfo.dk - another ZXDB frontend
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kolbeck
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Re: Best Mac emulator?

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Also zxsp-0-8-33-beta is available here: https://k1.spdns.de/Develop/Projects/zx ... ributions/

Runs on Mac M1 as well.
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Re: Best Mac emulator?

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kolbeck wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:51 pm I had to tweak the Makefile.OSX as well to get it to build properly on M1:
Change:
CFLAGS+=-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -arch i386 -arch x86_64
to
CFLAGS+=-mmacosx-version-min=13.2
and
Change:
LDFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -arch i386 -arch x86_64
to
LDFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=13.2
Also, replace -Wl,-framework, SDL with -lSDL in LIBS
LIBS=-L/opt/homebrew/lib/ -lSDLmain -lSDL -Wl,-framework,AppKit -Wl,-framework,Cocoa -Lsndrender -lsndrender
But now it compiles without any problems and runs fine on M1 Mac
Thank you for your feedback!
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Re: Best Mac emulator?

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kolbeck wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:55 pm Also zxsp-0-8-33-beta is available here: https://k1.spdns.de/Develop/Projects/zx ... ributions/

Runs on Mac M1 as well.
Runs great on my M1! And the little bug with the line showing is gone. Thanks for the update!
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