Date   : Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:25:10 +0000
From   : James Fidell <james@...>
Subject: xbeeb, the phoenix release...

Well, it's been quite a few years now, but this is it.  With some
trepidation, I can announce that xbeeb 0.4.1, my BBC Micro emulator
for X11, is now available at

  ftp://ftp.cloud9.co.uk/pub/Micros/BBC/Emulators/Xbeeb/xbeeb-0.4.1.tar.gz

Yes, there are problems with it, but there are also a whole pile of
improvements since v0.3, including near-complete emulation of the
undocumented 6502 opcodes and reasonable sound support.  I've also
added support for .inf files, so it should be straightforward to run
many of the programs on The BBC Lives.

My development is done on a RedHat 7.2 box and I'd expect xbeeb to work
on pretty much all RedHat releases.  I'm told that it works ok on Debian,
too, but there may be problems with SuSE.  It should run without too
much modification on a lot of other UNIX(-like) platforms.

Thanks to those people that contributed patches and the like.  I've not
been able to incorporate all of them yet because it's hard to reconcile
my existing code-base with some of the patches I have, but I'm working
on it.

Bouquets and brickbats to me, please.

James