>Just spotted that Richard Bannister has updated his Mac port of SimCoupe to
>0.7.9:
...
>Updated binary is available from:
>http://www.bannister.org/software/simcoupe.htm

Blatant GPL violation, anyone?

>From the manual:

>Source Code
>
>The source code for the Mac version is not available at this time. The
>plan was, and to a certain extent still is - to release the code to the
>world (after all SimCoupe is under the GNU licence). However, the Mac code
>is very messy and I'd rather not release it for the moment for this
>reason. Hopefully one day I'll have it cleaned up. Please don't pester any
>of the people involved for a copy of the source. The Un*x/DOS source can
>be downloaded from the SimCoupe home page.
>
>Cost
>
>SimCoupe/MacOS is free. This program may not be sold under any circumstances.

Political issues aside, there's still no support for the SYM key (which
makes work in BASIC nearly impossible) and the palette's bright bit still
doesn't seem to be used, so graphics are in only 64 colours. Moreover, it
doesn't include any of Si Owen's work, so all the timings are off and it
doesn't work with a lot of demanding software.

Lest I come across as negative... it *is* improved over the previous
version. But I do still plan on porting Si Owen's program to MacOS when
I've got time (and when I've finished a couple of other things I want to do
first).

Andrew
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