XRoar, a Dragon and Tandy 8-bit computer emulator

XRoar emulates the Dragon 32/64; Tandy Colour Computers 1, 2 and 3; the Tandy MC-10; and some other similar machines or clones. It runs on a wide variety of platforms. More features.

Download

Source code version 1.5.4, released 2024-02-06: xroar-1.5.4.tar.gz. Other downloads.

Debian snapshot builds are available in the Apt repository.

Ubuntu snapshot builds are available in this PPA on Launchpad.

Mac OS X binaries: 64-bit x86 Mac OS X (built under 10.13)

Windows binaries: 64-bit Windows, 32-bit Windows (cross-built using MinGW)

Git repository: git clone https://www.6809.org.uk/git/xroar.git

The manual is available in these formats: PDF and HTML. See Getting started for a quick guide to running XRoar. See Building from source for instructions on building from source. Be sure to read about any Recent changes.

Some loose notes about cross-compiling for Windows using Debian: Building XRoar for Windows.

Firmware ROM images are required to usefully run this emulator. If you have difficulty extracting these from your real Dragon, CoCo or MC-10, dumps may be available from the Dragon Archive or the Color Computer Archive.

Important: since version 1.3, the floppy disk image write-back behaviour has changed. See Recent changes in the manual.

asm6809 is a 6809 assembler that can generate machine code to run on the Dragon.

Want a Dragon in your browser? Try XRoar Online.

Notes for version 1.5

Fixes in version 1.5.1

Fixes in version 1.5.2

Fixes in version 1.5.3

Fixes in version 1.5.4

Note: rebuilt Windows packages uploaded 2024-02-27. Thanks to Patrick Sheldon for the heads-up that my cross-builds had started depending on zlib.dll.

For version change history, see the ChangeLog.

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Redistribution

License: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Binary packages may be linked against SDL and/or libsndfile.

Ports

Android APK: xroar-0.31.1-1.apk

Android port contributed by Tormod Volden. For more information see its readme.txt. For patches, etc., check out Tormod's website.

drHirudo has ported XRoar to AmigaOS 4 (!), available here.

Stefan Haubenthal has uploaded a build for MorphOS to aminet.

ZX-81 has ported version 0.19 to the Sony PSP and GP2X handhelds. Check for "Tandy Coco" in the list of categories on ZX-81's web site.

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Updated 27 Feb 2024