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I browsed the internet and i found that emulator for amstrad cpc.

http://ulrich-cordes.gmxhome.de/cpc/english/cpcemu.htm
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Emulators/Amstrad/

Are there any other emulators for linux?

And now the tricky part... How can i make it in a working state. I have no idea how to compile that emu...

sotris99,

compiling it is easy. You just need to download the devx .sfs file for whichever puppy you're using. e.g. for puppy4 it's this file, devx_400.sfs (77Mbytes), save this to /mnt/home, (if you have a frugal/CD install), reboot. Then extract the cpc4x package somewhere, then:
Also, if you were using puppy4, you would want to install tcl-8.5a4nothreads.pet & tk-8.5a4nothreads.pet

Then if you run cpc the help dialogue should open, or if you run cpc -noinfo, then just the amstrad console emulator.

The only problem, and why I said should open, is I just compiled it & find it's behaving a bit erratically. Firstly it's never succeeded in opening the /dev/dsp sound device. Then when I tried using it on a second computer it just died.

If you didn't want to compile it, I could upload it as a .pet for you to download but, as I said, it does seem a bit erratic at the moment.

Mu has an emulator section here

the emulator is always crashing...

Yes, mine is too! But it was working...until I recompiled it. I wasn't happy that it was using conqueror as the default browser, so I modified the tcl script, and one c file, to use puppy's defaultbrowser command as the default, and while the help file now opens OK with Mozilla, the cpc app then crashes straight away.

I might have another look tomorrow, or try sending the developer a query as to what's going on. It's sort of funny that it's crashing as the cpc website says, in regard to the original amstrads:

no general protection fault and no not working system components.

Sotris,

what about http://xcpc.emuunlim.com/

I've compiled the attached using pup2.16. Let me know whether it works with whatever pupversion you're using, or not, as it compiles easily. You can compile it against either athena, or motif gui, and it also needs this:

http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/LibDsk/

for floppy emulation. I've include libdsk.so.3 in the .pet.

Run it via Menu->Utility->Xcpc

Thanx i will try it...

muggins wrote:Sotris,

what about http://xcpc.emuunlim.com/

I've compiled the attached using pup2.16. Let me know whether it works with whatever pupversion you're using, or not, as it compiles easily. You can compile it against either athena, or motif gui, and it also needs this:

http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/LibDsk/

for floppy emulation. I've include libdsk.so.3 in the .pet.

Run it via Menu->Utility->Xcpc

Hello!!!

it works perfectly till puppy 3.0.1 but i cannot make it work under 4.3.1 i cannot compile it since it says that i am missing glib 2.6.0...

Here's the CPC emulator included in Puppy Acade..

yes i know that...

i want to compile xcpc also as well on puppy 4.2.1 or puppy 4.3.1 to have every amstrad cpc emulator on linux...

but i get errors...

xcpc on puppy 4.3.1? anyone?

@sotris99,

xcpc compiles without probs for me, on p431. Did you first compile libdsk.so.3 from LibDsk/?

I just did the usual:
for LibDsk & Xcpc, and it seems OK.

i don't have sound