[Blindapple] Running on Apple silicon?

[Darcy Burnard]

Hi.  If you’re going to use Mame on the Mac, your best bet is to probably get it through Homebrew.  That it will automatically install all the various required libraries and what not.
You can find home-brew at http://brew.sh <http://brew.sh/>.
Darcy


> On Nov 14, 2024, at 9:26 PM, Jayson Smith via BlindApple <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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