OpenEmulator

1.0.2

OpenEmulator aims to be an accurate, portable emulator of legacy computer systems.

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1.0.2
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OpenEmulator Team
Date added:

Dec 24, 2011
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Macintosh
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5.68 MB
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OpenEmulator-1.0.2.dmg
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Software Description

OpenEmulator aims to be an accurate, portable emulator of legacy computer systems. By using a software components framework, it is easy to expand a software emulation with additional software devices, just as a real system could be expanded with real devices. OpenEmulator currently support the Apple-1 line of computers, as well as the 1977 Apple II.

The first pillar of OpenEmulator is a component framework. The "Inversion of Control" design pattern is used to wire software components through an XML description, therefore increasing the level of abstraction. This XML file also stores the configuration and state of the components, thus saving an emulation to disk is straightforward. Another advantage is that it is possible to add virtual devices to an emulation, even while running. Thus a particular sound card or a certain kind of monitor can be added in real time, exactly as a physical system could be set up.

The second pillar is a state-of-the-art user interface. An easy-to-use yet powerful emulation window lists connected devices and allows modifying its properties. This can be used for changing the settings of a video monitor, or adjusting motherboard jumpers. "Mountable" devices accept disk or cartridge images, and "canvas" devices visualize the details of a device in a separate window. These can capture keyboard, mouse and joystick input, and are a great way for implementing video monitors, printers, keypads and LCD displays.

A third pillar is awesome video rendering with OpenGL and GLSL shaders. Through a GPU accelerated shader program most visual subtleties of the history of computing are emulated. Some of these are: video bandwidth, barrel distortion, shadow masks, scanlines, and screen persistance. A paper mode simulates the properties of paper for implementing virtual printers, and the NTSC/PAL decoder accurately mirrors the appearance of old composite video monitors.

Host hardware abstraction fully decouples an emulation from the environment, and a library of prebuilt virtual devices makes it easy to implement new emulations.

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