Date   : Thu, 27 Apr 2000 00:19:43 +1200 (NZST)
From   : Bill Keesing <bill@...>
Subject: Re: Emulators For Linux?

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Chris Evans wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Ian Miller wrote:
> 
> > > Xbeeb and Beebem, Xbeeb runs fine but only works in 8bit deep displays 
> > > and seems very out of date.  Beebem looks better but I cannot compile it 
> > > on my Mandrake 7.0 system, i get errors on the 'make' part of the install.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone got Beebem working?
> > 
> > What kind of errors are you getting? I don't know anything about Beebem,
> 
> BeebEm does not compile on any modern Linux distribution. This is
> attributable to flaws in the BeebEm code. If I remember correctly the
> flaws were
> 
> 1) Somewhere there is the line "#define throw", i.e. blanking out any
> throw statements. This line needs to be commented out because it conflicts
> with some header files.
> 
> 2) There is a nasty bug in one of the templates where an undefined class
> is forward referenced. It would seem that older compilers missed this
> error(!) whereas the newer egcs compiler catches it.
> 
> 
> Do you want a patch to correct these problems?
> 
> Alternatively, a while ago, I threw a few rpm's (for RedHat 6.x, may or
> may not work with other glibc2.1 distibutions) on
> ftp://ftp.lmh.ox.ac.uk/users/chris/BeebEm-0.8-4rh6x.i386.rpm
> 
> Only works at 8bpp 256 colour X server mode, but other than that it plays
> most games flawlessly.

How far away is the 16bpp version? I am still willing to beta it once you
get it ready.

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