CS/A65 Emulator

Long ago (or so it seems) I have added a CS/A65 emulation to the VICE emulator. As you can see from the text below, it is an old emulator. Nevertheless it should still work. If I get the time, I'll probably update it to the new VICE 1.0 code, some day...

The emulator is derived from the PET emulator, and allows running an old version (1.3.3) of the OS/A65 operating system (Well, meanwhile it can run the new not-yet-published version 1.4) A copy of the 1.3.3 ROM as well as the pre-1.4 csarom-1.3.94p is included. For more information see the GeckOS pages. The source archive, a patched VICE 0.12.0.16 version can be found as vice.16-csa-20.tar.gz. Now even the hardware cursor of the 6545 crtc controller works, and it should be much faster (than previous versions, not compared to VICE itself...) on slow machines now. the -20 version fixes a segmentation fault that could sometimes occur, and also includes some rudimentary ACIA 6551 rs232 emulation.

Some hints: You compile it with the usual "./configure", then "make xcsa" (it is not included in the normal build procedure, but you can still build all other emulators with the ususal "make") and install it with "make install_xcsa". There are no RS232 devices emulated, only dummy devices and the video device. On virtual terminal 1 a shell is running, on virtual terminal 2 a monitor is running. The "@" key switches between the virtual terminals (4 with 40 cols "-video40" option, or 2 with 80 cols). Drive C:-F: are IEEE drives 8-11, i.e. on drive 11 you find the Unix directory under VICE.