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 1.1, released 2022-07-21: xroar-1.1.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.
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.
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 1.1
- New GDB monitor commands [by Tormod Volden]
- New configure options to only build specific machine archs
- Support 1M or 2M in CoCo 3 [with Christopher Hawks]
- Support K7 cassette image files (read-only)
- Support UTF-8 block characters in -type for MC-10
- Type ASCII BASIC from file on MC-10
- Matra & Hachette Alice support (keyboard layout, built-in profile)
- New meta-options -machine-opt and -cart-opt
- New ide-addr=address cart-opt
- New abstract block device handling
- IDE support adjusted to use abstracted block devices
- MOOH/NX32 support adjusted to use abstracted block devices
- 6801/6803: fix some illegal instruction timings [George Phillips]
- Fixed uppercase 'G', lowercase 'j' and 'w' glyphs for 6847T1 [Tim Lindner]
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.
- Local copy of SDL source code: SDL2-2.0.16.tar.gz.
- Local copy of libsndfile source code: libsndfile-1.0.31.tar.bz2.
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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