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Fine on an M2 Mac going through rosetta. Might be a bit much for whatever powers the 2600+ though.

Previously it (bigpemu) ran fine on my 2012 mbp if that’s any help. Seems to be very well optimised so old hardware isn’t a problem.

I’ve been running wine on macOS since at least 2008. It’s come a long way and bigpemu works just fine on an m2 Mac. I’m away from my laptop just now but the current maintainer “gcenx” has instructions on getting it working.

I think the latest source is on GitHub which might work more reliably than a zip from 2010? Think it's this one? https://github.com/latchdevel/hxcfloppyemu

Got it working. Created a fresh wrapper and it sprang into life.

Yes I know. Haven't put much time into debugging it, wine on macOS is a bit weird at times.

Wine works on an m1/2 mac now. Mind you I've not managed to get bigpemu running on wine on my 2012 mbp, might need to set up a new environment in wineskin as other things work just fine.

I'm fairly certain it won't load jpg. I don't think we'd even heard of that format back then. Try gifs or iff. I'm sure it loaded those up. As I mentioned in the other thread I mostly used the desk accessory that came with it that let you integrate degas elite with spectrum512.

Should also come with a very useful acc that lets degas elite share files with digispec. I used it a lot to downscale to 16 colours.

Brown envelopes via the Royal Mail.

Fairly certain it was fixed. I remember an atari forum thread about it.

From memory it was medium res too?

Don't remember that one but its running in 1 vbl.(At least the 5 minutes i had playing it)

20mb scsi drive for my atari st (1991 I think). Can't remember the brand but know it had an ICD interface. Total game changer at the time and make coding a comparative dream compared to using floppies.

I doubt they had the original code somehow. As I said technical details are lacking. My suspicion is either a heavily patched binary or they disassembled the code to get it into a state it could be reassembled with the falcon fixes and new assets. None of which is beginner level tinkering.