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I've just compiled XRoar 1.10 on a M1 MacBook Pro. If I just start XRoar, it defaults to GTK+3 but that yields an empty window and no UI. Bit sad that there's GTK+ but presumably the GLArea stuff just doesn't work... It's not how I'd imagine it running under Mac OS, though you'd get better menus th...

https://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ Fairly minimal changes since 1.9, but I'm hoping one of them will increase QoL for a lot of people: Some people have been complaining for a while that XRoar suffers sound drops, especially when minimised or even not the primary focus. I never saw this on my Linux X11 ...

64 ought to be enough for anyone!

Hah, lovely Bit like the boy a few Dragon meets ago that did as well as I'd ever done on Blockdown on his first go. It's not that we're old though, right?

That's a very odd result: when I measure continuity on an original Dragon 64, those two pins are definitely connected on the motherboard. So long as your carrier is connecting both through directly I can't see why your bodge wire would be needed. But at this point I'd just be arguing against reality!

If you're running with a disk system (or emulating one), all the "normal" video addresses move up by 1536 bytes, so if you're setting PMODE4,1 then try POKEing from 3072 on.

What if we generated colour for composite video in a slightly ridiculous and very expensive way?

Well, I'd be able to throw together a little web page about it, for a start:

https://www.6809.org.uk/dev/tm016/

Can it read mail yet?

looks good, here's the original 2600 org $2600 2600 setdp 0 ; assumed 2600 4F53 boot_flag fcc /OS/ 2602 8E262A boot_exec ldx #run_dragon 2605 B6A000 lda $a000 ; [$A000] points to ROM1 in CoCos 2608 8420 anda #$20 260A 2703 beq 10F ; dragon 260C 8E263A ldx #run_coco2 260F CE02DC 10 ldu #$02dc 2612 DF...