[Blindapple] Running on Apple silicon?

[John Isige]

Hi all.

So I grabbed the Mac version of the emulator, unzipped it, put the SDL library in /library/frameworks, allowed mess64, allowed the SDL framework, and allowed terminal to monitor keystrokes, it complained about something but I couldn’t catch the message because it just opened system settings. That was the only app in the table and I didn’t see mess64 in applications to add it.

If I run it like so:


./mess64 apple2ee -flop1 ./ae/dos33/eamontlk.dsk

It says it’s not responding a lot, says something about sdnsync window is sleeping, (again can’t quite tell what this is), and either ends on its own or interprets cmd-opt-esc to enter forced quit as a signal to kill it.

Anybody know the right incantation to get this working? Alternatively, if it doesn’t work on M-seires processors, is there an emulator that does? With Echo naturally.

TIA for any help. I hope it works, I was looking forward to playing some Eamon, and engaging in the Inception of nostalgia, emulating my first Apple computer, the first computer I ever used, on a modern Apple computer. “The circle is now complete”! Well, it will be if I can get it working anyway.