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This article is from the Apple ][ Emulator Resources Guide, by Alex Maddison with numerous contributions by others.

2.2.12 XGS-Mac (version 0.50r3)

HOMEPAGE: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~m-bytnar/XGS-Mac/

AVAILABILITY: Available for free download from: http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~m-bytnar/XGS-Mac/xgs-mac0.50r3_PPC.sit.hqx (PPC) http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~m-bytnar/XGS-Mac/xgs-mac0.50r3_68K.sit.hqx (68K) http://www.jurai.org/~funaho/emulators/XGS/xgs-0.53-src.tar.gz (beta source code) http://www.jurai.org/~funaho/emulators/XGS/xgs-0.50-src.tar.gz (source code) Older versions as below: http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~m-bytnar/XGS-Mac/xgs-mac0.50r2_PPC.sit.hqx (PPC) http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~m-bytnar/XGS-Mac/xgs-mac0.50r1_68K.sit.hqx (68K) ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/emulators/xgs/

AUTHOR: Joshua M. Thompson <funaho@jurai.org>; Mac version ported and maintained by Michael Bytnar <m-bytnar@uiuc.edu>.

STATUS: Development in progress. Check the mailing list for further information (email <majordomo@jurai.org> with the words "subscribe xgs-list" in the body of the letter) or the development mailing list (email <majordomo@jurai.org> with the words "subscribe xgs-dev" in the body of the letter). Announcements of the latest version of XGS-Mac are available from: http://internetter.com/titan/macemu/index.html.

SHORT DESCRIPTION: XGS emulates a ROM03 Apple IIGS, with the following features: CPU and memory map emulation, graphics modes up to super high resolution, ADB keyboard, clock chip, battery RAM, IWM hardware emulation for Slot 5 & 6 drives, ProDOS block device in Slot 7 and classic Apple ][ sound. Further IIGS features such as Ensoniq sound and GS/OS 6 capacity will be added in future releases.

ROMS: XGS does not come with the necessary ROMs. The emulator requires a copy of the Apple IIGS ROM03 - these ROMs can be copied from your Apple IIGS by following the procedures in the "README" text file included with the package. ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/emulators/rom_images/

DISK-IMAGE FORMAT: 2IMG universal format, from version 0.50. From version 0.50 onwards the previous proprietary image type is no longer supported. The archive includes a utility named "imgconv" to convert disk-images from the previous type into XGS image files.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: "Higher end" 68K "desktop" (colour) Macintosh with FPU or PowerPC Macintosh with 6Mb RAM, extended keyboard and 1-20Mb of free hard-disk space. Versions 0.50r2 and higher require the DrawSprocket extension. http://www.unsupported.com/Files/Release/DrawSprocket.sit.bin

FURTHER REFERENCES: "README" (Text file included in the archive) and "The Official XGS FAQ (version 1.3)". http://www.jurai.org/~funaho/emulators/XGS/xgsfaq13.txt

RELATED FILES:

Image Utilities for XGS-DOS v0.50 - A Macintosh port of "imageconv" and "imageutil" are provided in the XGS-Mac archive. These are basically identical in operation to their MS-DOS counterparts.

ROMverify - An application which validates the XGS.ROM file. It is included in the XGS-Mac archive.

"Using .SHK Files on an XGS" - Two-part article on using *.SHK and *.BSC files with XGS, by Bruce E. Fleury <bfleury@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>. ftp://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/

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