Re: Re-Introducing the First, and Fully Functional, Lisa Emulator

also...I'm running a mac mini intel core duo 1.66ghz with 2gb ram and Mac OS X 10.4.8 and the intel build of this emulator and yet it bounces in the dock a long time before it finally completely loads...anyone else notice that/know why it takes so long to load even when it's compiled for the native architecture? thanks! :-)

On 1/25/07, Hex Star <hexstar_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
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> On 1/24/07, Ray Arachelian <ray_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
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> > On January 24th, 1984, the Macintosh announced, but along with that
> > announcement came another that not everyone recalls: The introduction
> > of the Lisa 2.
> >
> > Reflecting the echoes of that date, I'm announcing the availability of
> > The Apple Lisa Emulator. While there are still some flaws and missing
> > features, to address, I've decided that it was more important to honor
> > the Lisa's January introduction.
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> > You'll be able to download the emulator from here in a few minutes:
> > http://lisaem.sunder.net/downloads.html
> >
> > Questions about the emulator should be directed here: lisaem_at_email.domain.hidden
> > Bug reports here: lisaem-bugs_at_email.domain.hidden
> >
> >
> > To use the emulator you will need a copy of the Lisa Boot ROM
> > (preferably version H) as well as OS software. Please do not ask me to
> > provide these. If you own a Lisa, you already have legal copies of
> > these.
> >
> >
> > The emulator currently runs on the following platforms:
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> > * Mac OS X - Intel and G4 PPC.
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> > * Linux - since there are too many distros, I'm releasing a statically
> > linked X11 binary for 2.6 kernels, which should run on most distros, but
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> > you'll probably want to compile your own version instead.
> >
> > * win32 (w2k and possibly XP)
> >
> > The project will also compile and run wherever wxWidgets runs on a unix
> > like platform (with some tweaks), I'll put up more binaries as time
> > permits.
> >
> > Source code will be released in about a week or two, licensed under the
> > terms of the GNU Public License 2.0. There are parts whose quality of
> > the code isn't as good as I'd want it to be. :-)
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> >
> > Known bugs:
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> > No documentation, at this time there are hooks in the help menu that
> > point to the website, where I'll fill in documentation. Future releases
> > will have built in docs.
> > The raw keyboard routines aren't quite right. Use the ASCII kb mode for
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> > now.
> > Won't run Xenix - it boots but stops before the shell, likely a VIA bug.
> > Printing works, but isn't yet completed (spits out ugly postscript files
> > only at this time, needs wxWidgets integration which I'm currently
> > working on)
> > Win32 LibDC42 routines might not be too stable, may cause trouble with
> > Profiles
> > Sound isn't perfect, although it does beep on most platforms, the
> > "click" is treated incorrectly as a beep.
> > Some of the animation has color issues in some of the BMP's/XPM's - i.e.
> > floppy insertion
> > Mouse movement under certain environments isn't quite right (I've
> > optimized for Lisa Office System.)
> > When the emulator quits, on OS X, it segfaults (crashes.)
> > Won't work with Lisa 1 ROMs as there is little support for Lisa 1 HW
> > emulation at this time.
> >
> > A few tools I intended to write still need to be written.
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> Ok so I found a copy of a lisa rom but found that whenever I try to
> install lisa office system I get this:
> http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/8007/noiwontinstall6mi.png is this the
> catch-22 bug that's mentioned on the download page? If so how are we
> supposed to actually use this emulator and install lisa office system? Do
> you have a image we could use that already has lisa office system installed
> since you said that images with it already installed work fine? Sending this
> to the lisalist as well in case anyone on the list knows of a solution as
> well...thanks! :-)
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