Linapple - emulator of Apple][ series computer for Linux or other POSIX-compliant OSes with SDL support.


[INSTALL]
To build it you need SDL.
To find out if you have one, and what version it is, type the next command:

$ sdl-config --version

You may recieve something like

1.2.11

(in my case), or

bash: sdl-config: command not found

which means you do not have SDL installed.


Get it from http://www.libsdl.org, if this is your case, or use your distro' package management tool for installing SDL into your system.
After SDL is installed, you can build sources.
These sources were build with SDL version 1.2.11 (I think any version at least of 1.2 should be right), and c++ (GCC) version 4.1.1 (but I can not see reasons why any other version of GCC or any other c++ compiler can not be used.)


So, approaching to the point:

Untar the package:

$ tar xjf linapple-src_1.0b.tar.bz2

Then go to src directory and compile.

$ cd linapple-src_1.0b/src

$ make

Now, if there were no errors, go to the upper directory and run the beast.

$ cd ..

$ ./linapple

It's easy, right?

If all files are on their places, you should see an X-Window with splash screen. Press F2 (or F3 before to choose some disk image in drive 1), and go to work.

It works as well as AppleWin, although it needs testing and supporting.

Where to install? Anywhere you feel fit,  just let linapple be with some files it needs for comprehenceive working.

The files are:

applelin.bmp 		- splash screen
charset40.bmp		- charset for Apple][ text modes.
font.bmp		- font for Help screen and Disk Select screen.
icon.bmp		- nice icon, logo of Apple][ computer.
linapple.conf		- configuration file.
Master.dsk		- disk image with DOS3.3 inside. See Apple license for details.

Essential are font.bmp and charset40.bmp, others can be omitted peacefully.

P.S. You may play with some options of Makefile in src directory, using CFLAGS.

That's all, folks!


[CONTACT]

beom beotiger, December 2007 AD
beotiger@mail.ru
