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XRoar is a Dragon emulator for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, GP32, Nintendo
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DS and Windows. Due to hardware similarities, XRoar also emulates the
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Tandy Colour Computer (CoCo) models 1 & 2.
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Optional, but recommended, is libsndfile (available from SlackBuilds.org).
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xroar uses libsndfile to support audio files (WAV, etc) as cassette
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images. It is not required for the emulator to play audio, nor is it
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required for ".cas" files (cassette data images).
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To usefully emulate the Dragon or CoCo, you will need the images of
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the system ROMs for the target system. The ROM images must be copied to
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/usr/share/xroar/roms, and must be given the filenames xroar expects. See
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the xroar info page or /usr/doc/xroar-0.23b/xroar.html for details on
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ROM files.
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If you want to include ROM images in the package, get the files
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"coco.zip", "coco2.zip", "cocoe.zip", "dragon32.zip", and/or
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"dragon64.zip" from any site that carries MESS BIOS images. Place them
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in the directory with the SlackBuild script before running it. The
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resulting package cannot be redistributed (that would violate both the
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GPL and the original copyright on the ROM images).
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If you don't include the ROM images, it's still possible to run
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some Dragon32 software: the package includes a freeware ROM image
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(mini-dragon.rom) that partly reimplements the original ROM code. This
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is enough to run at least some cartridge-based games.
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More information on the Dragon and CoCo computers:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer
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http://archive.worldofdragon.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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http://archive.worldofdragon.org/archive/index.php
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