Best Mac emulator?

[kolbeck]

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

It can emulate zx80/81 and ZX Spectrum.

[mrtinb]

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

It works great, and has a great debugger built in.

[kolbeck]

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

[kolbeck]

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

Runs on Mac M1 as well.

[olofsen]

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!

[SafePit]

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!

[kolbeck]

If you want to run EightyOne on newer Mac's with M1/2 - have a look at Wineskin Winery - https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer

I'm now running EightyOne on my Mac mini M2

[mrtinb]

I didn't think Wine/Wineskin supported M1+ Macs. I had EightyOne working back when my Mac was x64.

Thank you for the update.

[zx81ultra]

Another great option for running EightyOne on a M3 Mac is https://getwhisky.app/