Date : Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:28:28 +0100
From : "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <beeb@...>
Subject: Re: BeebEm under Linux? (or any BBC emulator under Linux? :-)
* Jules Richardson (julesrichardsonuk@...) wrote:
>
> 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!)
The beebfile directory is (if I remember correctly) the directory
under which you are current directory when you run it - from the
ReadMe.1st that comes with the source:
Now you have to get three disc images from a beeb. One of an 8271 dfs
(I used DNFS). Place that in beebfile/dnfs (even if its a dfs).
Put the basic rom in beebfile/basic and the OS in beebfile/os12. These
images are just 16KB binary files.
> Am I going to get problems running this as non-root anyway?
No.
> Am I going to hit problems running on a 24-bit display? The docs hint at
> this only working with an 8-bit display :-(
Certainly the way I left it a long time ago it would only work on 8-bit;
I use the palette on the X display to emulate the flashing colours and
the like; 8 bpp cards were the norm when I wrote it and it would
have slowed the poor P90 I wrote it on down even more to do the full
emulation in 24bpp that I did in the later ArcEm.
Dave
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