Date   : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:52 +0000
From   : mlist@... (Steven Flintham)
Subject: Is there a 65Tube-style BBC emulator available for

Hi,

Does anyone know of a BBC emulator for Unix/Linux which works like
65Tube on RISC OS? In other words, it doesn't emulate any hardware
beyond the 6502 in the second processor and passes all OS calls on to
the host operating system with no/minimal translation. (If I was really
dreaming, it would be nice if it supported something like GNU readline
for input, instead of using raw getchar() or similar.)

I want to do a bit of messing around with 6502 assembler and the
65Tube-style environment seems so much more comfortable than using a
full emulator or a real BBC (not that I have one handy anyway).

At the moment I'm reduced to running 65Tube under a task window in
rpcemu (a Risc PC emulator), which seems a bit crazy and (mainly because
of the task window scrolling, I think) is a little bit slow.

I assume it wouldn't be rocket science to gut an existing emulator to
create something like this, but I wondered if anyone else has already
done it. All I've found so far is JGH's 65TubeEm, but running that under
Brandy Basic seems to have that 'double layer of emulation' quality that
I'm trying to avoid. (I also didn't manage to get it to run in my brief
efforts, and since I had Brandy Basic segfault on me at least once I
wasn't too inclined to keep trying; it doesn't seem a very stable
environment and it's really not what I'm after in the first place.)

Steve