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Virtual II is overall the best Apple II emulator across all platforms, and the article doesn't even mention how stellar its debugger is. My only gripe with it
by rahen 3y ago
Virtual II is overall the best Apple II emulator across all platforms, and the article doesn't even mention how stellar its debugger is.
My only gripe with it is that it's not as accurate as AppleWin, despite excelling in every other aspect. This means that writing a cycle-accurate demo won't work as smoothly with AppleWin as it would with AppleWin and AMPLE. Several cycle-counting demos fail to run on Virtual II, a shame for an otherwise perfect emulator. Hopefully the author addresses and resolves this issue in the future.
- Narishma 3y agoTwo other issues are that it is commercial/proprietary and only available on MacOS.
- rahen 3y agoCheck out Mariani, a port of AppleWin (Windows) for macOS and Linux. It's open-source, cycle accurate and emulates a fairly good number of devices: https://github.com/sh95014/AppleWin https://github.com/sh95014/AppleWin The last version finally has a debugger. It lacks the killer feature of Virtual II though: the ability to mount a folder as a ProDOS disk. This is gold for cross development.