AppleWin ROBOWIN page!



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* 8 megabyte ramworks emulation
* Hard drive emulation
* Super Serial card emulation
  - serial log
  - dip switch emulation
* selectable speed slider
  - original apple II speed (1mhz)
  - full speed
  - You can even set speed below 1mhz
    (I have found this useful for testing
    software)
  - Rich gets 60 mhz on 2.0 ghz machine
* enhanced debugger
  - view the state of the Memory softswitches
  - view the state of the Video softswitches
* "insert on boot" feature lets you specify
  what disks to have in the drives when the
  emulator is started.
* Joystick : use keyboard, joystick, mouse to 
  emulate apple II joystick input


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rich wants:

* file selector for BOOT HDV and DSK images
* Print to Clipboard (direct output to printer 
  with PR#1.  Printer output goes to windows 
  clipboard)
* source debugger
* mockingboard support that AppleWin has
* speech output (doubletalk emulation)
  -send PR#2 output to windows XP speech engine
  -or a freeware speech output program

Laine wants: More slots in Apple 2.


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author

Laine Houghton's modifications of :
 AppleWin Emulator



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 Click here to download the ZIP

this link is broken.  Laine has not yet decided 
to release his modifications publicly

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Robowin features an enhanced debugger.
You can watch code execute,
watch contents of:
      Accumulator
      X register
      Y register
      Program Counter
      Stack Pointer
      Status Register 

commands I know:
Legend:
* (register) = A,X,Y,PC,SP
*       XXXX = hex number

change contents of a register:
R (register) = XXXX

Watch a memory location:
W XXXX

watch a 16 byte section of RAM:
MEM XXXX

view status of softswitches:
PAGES

Skip watching ROM execute:
Control+Arrow Down
Holding the Ctrl key while pressing 
arrow down works as a run to cursor. 
It is intended to skip having to single 
step through JSR HOME or JSR BELL and 
the like. The red bar should be set on 
the line to run to then hit the enter 
key. If the red bar disappears it is 
not safe to hit enter. Use Ctrl-Arrow 
up to regain the bar or continue down 
till it reappears.


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By: Laine Houghton

I came to know Applewin because Robert Doerr was looking for an emulator to 
run his Apple II software which controls his Androbot robots. 

Robert Doerr's page

Robert is happily taking his laptop and robots on the road for 
demonstrations. 


Along the way I came to really like Applewin and added many modifications I 
wanted and some fine ideas Robert and Rich requested. Rich's  request for a 
copy from clipboard was one I wish I had thought of. It has saved me untold 
hours. Applesoft and assembly source found on the net can be copied to the 
clipboard and with the press of a button it is typed into the apple to be 
run or compiled. Not to mention today's word processors are more powerful 
and easier to use. 


The robot software is written and run in Forth. They way the modules are 
swapped around and the fact it switches between direct polling the ACIA and 
handing off the task to the SSC, coupled with a serial as well as an IR link 
makes the whole thing timing sensitive. 


The last release works well with the robots but a piece of code tested 
earlier is not so good on version 2.0.3. A loop to directly poll the ACIA 
has unacceptable performance. 


I know how I want to tighten up the timing so it is faithful to Apple users 
as well as the robot software. Actually the former guarantees the latter. 


It does require a fair rewrite that will affect many areas and require major 
retesting and bug squashing. 


That for the last few weeks has killed motivation. I'm waiting for a spark 
of enthusiasm :) 


Also the last mod I made was limited support of .2mg files. I could or 
prodos would read and write 800k images. I tried to unshrink an 800k SDK and 
not surprisingly shrinkit informed me no device was available. I was trying 
to decide if I wanted to fully implement 800k support.