Hi *,

I wrote a - tiny - apple II plus emulator - it's less than 1000 SLOC but already features sound, video, joystick, disk ][, etc...

It's published at : https://github.com/ArthurFerreira2/reinette-II-plus

I need experts eyes to test it, and would appreciate if you give it a try and share your thoughts and critics - all of them will be welcomed.

Cheers,
Arthur

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On Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:46:07 UTC+10, Arthur Ferreira wrote:

Hi *,

I wrote a - tiny - apple II plus emulator - it's less than 1000 SLOC but already features sound, video, joystick, disk ][, etc...

It's published at : https://github.com/ArthurFerreira2/reinette-II-plus

I need experts eyes to test it, and would appreciate if you give it a try and share your thoughts and critics - all of them will be welcomed.

Cheers,
Arthur

I like it, nice work! It's a pity the SDL2.DLL is so big! ; - )

It's nice that you have the fonts there as editable BMPs, but because of the way they're used I was unable to get the II j-plus working. (Not a very compelling use-case, I know.) It would be nicer if each of the 4 (or 5) primary font areas had it's own
bitmap for instance.

Also, F12 to exit is a bit strange. Most emulators use a top right key (Backspace, F12 or Pause/Break) for Reset.

Cheers,
Nick.

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I didn't actually run the emulator, but I did read over the source. Thanks for all the comments in there -- it was a very good read and very clear. It's the first emulator source I've spent that much time on but I got a lot out of it.

--Ernie

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Le mardi 18 août 2020 à 15:29:01 UTC+2, ern...@gmail.com a écrit :

I didn't actually run the emulator, but I did read over the source. Thanks for all the comments in there -- it was a very good read and very clear. It's the first emulator source I've spent that much time on but I got a lot out of it.

--Ernie

This is exactly the reason why I shared it - thank you !!!

Cheers,
Arthur

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Le mardi 18 août 2020 à 05:45:19 UTC+2, Nick Westgate a écrit :

On Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:46:07 UTC+10, Arthur Ferreira wrote:

Hi *,

I wrote a - tiny - apple II plus emulator - it's less than 1000 SLOC but already features sound, video, joystick, disk ][, etc...

It's published at : https://github.com/ArthurFerreira2/reinette-II-plus

I need experts eyes to test it, and would appreciate if you give it a try and share your thoughts and critics - all of them will be welcomed.

Cheers,
Arthur

I like it, nice work! It's a pity the SDL2.DLL is so big! ; - )

It's nice that you have the fonts there as editable BMPs, but because of the way they're used I was unable to get the II j-plus working. (Not a very compelling use-case, I know.) It would be nicer if each of the 4 (or 5) primary font areas had it's own

bitmap for instance.

Also, F12 to exit is a bit strange. Most emulators use a top right key (Backspace, F12 or Pause/Break) for Reset.

Cheers,
Nick.

thank you for the feedback - this is going right into my TODO list

Cheers,
Arthur

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