KEGS - Kent's Emulated GS
An Apple IIgs emulator for Mac OS X, Linux, and Unix/X11
Download version 1.16 - DynaPro, F5 to toggle off status display
Older versions
Samples and other utilities
Getting a bootable disk image
To use KEGS, you need to get a ROM image. I'll write directions on how
to generate the ROM file later. Some of the other emulator pages give directions
on how to create a ROM file.
The are several ways to transfer files from your Apple IIgs to your
machine. The method I use is to create ShrinkIt disk archives
of the 5.25" or 3.5" disks you want to transfer. Then, transfer those .SHK
files to your computer. You can use modem/serial line transfer, or some
other less direct method. Non-Apple machines cannot read the 800K 3.5" disk
format. Sorry. I admit, all of these paths are tedious.
Once you have the .SHK files on the workstation, you're home free. Use
nulib to extract the disk image from the archive. Edit KEGS's "config.kegs"
file to point to the image, and you're off! Nulib works like tar: "nulib
tv foo.shk" lists the archive and "nulib xv foo.shk" will extract the disk
image. If you have .BXY files, you need to use "nulib xb foo.bxy" to extract
the files.
KEGS information
KEGS emulates an Apple IIgs accurately at between 400MHz and 750MHz on pretty
much any Unix/Linux system or Mac OS X.
Other Apple IIgs emulators and other KEGS ports
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GSport- A port of KEGS providing features like Ethernet, printing, etc.
Code is here.
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GSPLUS- A port of KEGS using
the SDL library to Mac OS X/Windows/Linux. Has a better user interface than KEGS.
Old and outdated Apple IIgs emulators
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KEGS SDL - Frederic Devernay's
port of KEGS to use the SDL library, used as the basis of KEGS-OS-X. Source
available
Other Apple IIgs links