KEGS - Apple IIgs emulator
Posted: 10 May 2011, 03:46Hi everyone,
So - most people don't know this, but I was very involved in the Apple ][ and Apple IIgs scene when I was younger. My brother and I shared an original Apple ][, with a serial number in the low 9000's, that our parents bought us. Then, when we got a little older, my brother and I both bought Apple IIgs computers and pimped them out.
(In fact, it was Apple's discontinuation of the Apple ][ series in favor of the Mac right after we spent over $2500 in 1987 dollars on them that led to my abandonment of Apple computers forever - but that's a different post.
)
Anyway - poking around the web today, I came across this project:
http://kegs.sourceforge.net/
This is an Apple IIgs emulator for Win/Mac/Linux. It turns out the code runs on PowerPC and doesn't use any fancy graphics. In fact, it seems to run extremely fast on the PS3.
It's pretty easy to build - you just unpack it, open a terminal window, navigate to the unpacked kegs.0.91/src directory, erase the existing vars symbolic link, create a new vars symbolic link to vars_linuxppc, do a make, and you're done!
It will place a file called xkegs in the kegs.0.91 directory. You'll need Apple IIgs roms and disc images to use it - or a lot of Apple ][ experience if you're good working with a terminal.
Here's a shot of it in action:
Cheers,
Paul
So - most people don't know this, but I was very involved in the Apple ][ and Apple IIgs scene when I was younger. My brother and I shared an original Apple ][, with a serial number in the low 9000's, that our parents bought us. Then, when we got a little older, my brother and I both bought Apple IIgs computers and pimped them out.
(In fact, it was Apple's discontinuation of the Apple ][ series in favor of the Mac right after we spent over $2500 in 1987 dollars on them that led to my abandonment of Apple computers forever - but that's a different post.
)Anyway - poking around the web today, I came across this project:
http://kegs.sourceforge.net/
This is an Apple IIgs emulator for Win/Mac/Linux. It turns out the code runs on PowerPC and doesn't use any fancy graphics. In fact, it seems to run extremely fast on the PS3.
It's pretty easy to build - you just unpack it, open a terminal window, navigate to the unpacked kegs.0.91/src directory, erase the existing vars symbolic link, create a new vars symbolic link to vars_linuxppc, do a make, and you're done!
It will place a file called xkegs in the kegs.0.91 directory. You'll need Apple IIgs roms and disc images to use it - or a lot of Apple ][ experience if you're good working with a terminal.
Here's a shot of it in action:
Cheers,
Paul