About: A2.BeBox.Emu.Tar.gz
(An Apple II emulator for the BeBox computer)

What it is: and Apple II emulator
Author: Kevin Lund (kevin@locutus.ucr.edu)
Version: 0.1 (I just made that up)
OS version: tested on 8.2 PowerMac
Requirements: The usual.  Shouldn't take extreme anything.

Ok, here it is, Sargalo (named of course after the infamous Sargalo
Sea...).  It's an apple II emulator, landing closest to the II+.


Points worthy of mention:

	The only way to quit is by explicitly quitting (i.e., you can't
		do it by closing all the windows, which you can't do anyway)
	
	The drives take dragged disk images from the browser
	
	F1 toggles back and forth between full-screen view
	
	It's only been tested on a Powermac 7500 (well, after upgrades,
		I guess it's closer to a 7600).  Only time will tell if it'll
		work on real Be hardware.  But most importantly, it's only
		been run under 8-bit video.  I imagine that 32-bit video
		will work, but there might be a big speed hit.  Anyway, in
		full-screen mode it grabs an 8-bit workspace, so you can
		always use that.
	
	There's a speed control, but no speed indicator.  Depending on your
		machine, you'll be able to get it up to some degree of speed
		(how's that for weasely?).  On my machine, it gets to maybe
		triple speed (see excuses below).  There's also an FPS slider,
		which is more reliable in terms of getting what you ask for,
		but of course under high load who knows?
	
	The slider on the audio window is a volume control

	
Excuses:

	Boy do I have a bundle of 'em.  Where to begin?
	
	This is my first Be program, so the interface is quirky.
	
	I did a Mac emulator along these same lines; running under 68K
		emulation, it gets similar speed to Sargalo running PPC
		native.  What gives?  Well, STM (the mac one) was in pretty
		tight assembly, made some simplifying assumptions about memory
		mapping, and had a low frame rate.  None of these are the
		case in Sargalo.  If my interest level remains up, the speed
		will improve (plenty of room for that).
		
	Oh, did I mention that this is my first Be program?  I have no
		idea whatsoever what I'm doing.  I love the audio subscribers.
		I hate the audio subscribers.


Disk images:

	Sargalo expects to see dos-order disk images; these are the most
		common sort.  Other formats will be straightforward to add,
		but I have a dissertation to write!  If you want icons
		on the images files, set type to DSK5 and creator to A2EM. But
		these aren't enforced.
		
	You can get 'em at ftp.apple.asimov.net in pub/apple_II/images.
		Most of them there should work (well, load)...anything
		ending in .po or .nib is not currently supported; nor is
		anything requiring a //e or ProDOS.
	

Legal stuff:

	Indeed, this package is a xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx.  Well, there
		you have it.
	
	As for the stuff not owned by Apple, I retain rights, etc., but
		it's free.
		

That's it for now...

   Kevin Lund (kevin@locutus.ucr.edu)