Date   : Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:42:28 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: BeebEm under Linux? (or any BBC emulator under Linux? :-)

Has anyone managed to get BeebEm running under recent versions of linux?

I grabbed the binary and three ROM images (OS, DFS and BASIC), then set
them up according to:

  http://www.mikebuk.dsl.pipex.com/beebem/setup.html

(As there's no UNIX example I am assuming that it expects the same
beebfile subdir and ROM image names..)

Unfortunately running it, all  I get is: 

  Version: 0.9DAG 10/12/2000
  Could not open basic rom file
  Aborted

Blah. Surely it looks for the ROM images in ./beebfile (not in
/beebem/beebfile as that setup page suggests - I'd rather not hang
everything off the filesystem root!)

Am I going to get problems running this as non-root anyway? 

Am I going to hit problems running on a 24-bit display? The docs hint at
this only working with an 8-bit display :-(

What other alternatives are there for Linux / UNIX? I get the impression
that Xbeeb isn't under active development and there are lots of bits
missing?

(Actually I'd ideally like something that emulated Econet somehow and
would run without a BASIC ROM too so I could fiddle with this picture
wall thing on emulated hardware, but that's probably asking far too much
:-)

cheers,

Jules