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Michel Pollet, aka @buserror, initially doesn't have much good to say about existing Apple //e emulators for Linux. Upon a closer look, however, he does have a point that the source of linapple is somewhat... let's say cluttered and outdated. Fair enough, nearly 25 years without a major rewrite inevitably results in a significant amount of technical debt.

And that provides a good reason for a complete rewrite. Said and done, since last month we can now admire his MII Apple //e Emulator.

The emulator can only be compiled on Linux, has minimal dependencies, is entirely written in C, is small, fast, and charming. Additionally, it comes with ROM and font files, so there's no need to worry about potentially illegal downloads. 🫣

For those interested, you can directly connect to it via Telnet, there's a debugger with a stepper available, and a mini-assembler is also on board.

Great project. I'm curious to see what the source looks like in 25 years. 😜