XRoar simulating NTSC cross-colour
XRoar on the Nintendo DS
XRoar on the GP32 (old version)
XRoar is a Dragon emulator for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. Due to hardware similarities, XRoar also emulates the Tandy Colour Computer (CoCo) models 1 & 2. More features.
Source code version 0.32, released 2014-04-22: xroar-0.32.tar.gz. Older versions.
Debian snapshot builds of this and other software are available for amd64 and i386 architectures. Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list, run apt-get update, then apt-get install xroar.
deb http://www.6809.org.uk/debian testing main deb-src http://www.6809.org.uk/debian testing main
Ubuntu snapshot builds of this and other software are available in this PPA on Launchpad.
Windows binaries built using MinGW: 64-bit Windows, 32-bit Windows
Mac OS X packages: Mac OS X 10.6+ (Intel), Mac OS X 10.4
Git repository: git clone http://www.6809.org.uk/git/xroar.git
Older builds: Nintendo DS, GP32
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.
Firmware ROM images are required to usefully run this emulator. If you have difficulty extracting these from your real Dragon or CoCo, dumps may be available from the Dragon Archive.
Want a Dragon in your browser? Here's a limited but functional Flash version of XRoar. Needs Flash 10 and a pretty fast computer.
For full version information, see the ChangeLog.
License: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.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.
Tormod Volden has contributed this build for Android. For more information see its readme.txt. For patches, etc., check out Tormod's website.
| Android | xroar-0.31.1-1-.apk |
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CrashSerious has ported version 0.24 to the PS3. Download the PS3roar binary, or clone the PS3roar git repository. There's an announcement page with discussion here.
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.
Ron from DCEmu started a port to the Dreamcast called DragonDC. The last post about it I can find was from the 12th April 2007.
MESS, the "Multiple Emulator Super System", emulates a variety of old computer hardware, Dragon included. Source available.
T3 and PC-Dragon, two DOS-only emulators written by Paul Burgin. Source code is available for PC-Dragon, but redistribution of modified copies (of the source) is not permitted, amongst other restrictions. T3 is closed source.
Vcc, a Windows-only CoCo 3 emulator. Does not emulate CoCo 1/2 (beyond what compatibility a CoCo 3 had) or Dragon. Closed source, website expired.
Updated 22 Nov 2014