[Blindapple] Running on Apple silicon?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

I have no idea if MESS will even run on Apple Silicon, since the MESS 
project hasn't been a going concern for years. MESS merged into the MAME 
project at www.mamedev.org where you can probably find an appropriate 
download. I've created a MameApple package a few years ago, but only 
have one for Windows. It does things a bit differently, in particular I 
think the ROM files are different.

Jayson

On 11/14/2024 8:03 PM, John Isige via BlindApple wrote:
> 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.
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