Emulators on Mac OSX

Mark R. Jones · March 2005

Why are Spectrum emulators on Mac OSX so rubbish compared to all the ones available on the PC?

'Fuse' and 'zxsp' don't even have borders and I can't for the life of me get them to run FULL screen.

Is it REALLY worth installing OS9 JUST so I can use 'MacSpectacle'? It'll be the ONLY thing I need OS9 for!

Help needed PLEASE

Quirky · March 2005

Fuse does have full screen, in the SDL version. I guess it's a limit of GTK+ (?) that prevents it on that version. And it has borders too, unless the mac version is very different to the linux one.

Philip Kendall · March 2005

'Fuse' [ ... ] don't even have borders

That is most definitely untrue.

Mark R. Jones · March 2005

Ok sorry I stand corrected. My apologies. But is it worth installing OS9 just so I can use 'MacSpectacle'?

BTW I just tried the 'Fuse' full screen mode and it's NOT full screen. It's 'a bit bigger than windowed mode with a huge black border' mode!

[ This Message was edited by: Mark R Jones on 2005-03-06 23:11 ]

Fred · March 2005

On 2005-03-06 23:09, Mark R Jones wrote:
BTW I just tried the 'Fuse' full screen mode and it's NOT full screen. It's 'a bit bigger than windowed mode with a huge black border' mode!

I am sure you are frustrated, but you are not going about asking for help very well at all. Fuse has a bug reporting system, and a mailing list where you can contact the developers with your problems, details are in the Fuse About box (and my email address and an offer of help is in the Fuse.rtf file).

The Fuse full screen mode asks OS X for a display of the appropriate size, and yours is the first time I've heard of anyone not being able to get a full screen display on their first attempt. What Mac and display do you have?

The problem is almost certainly down to you having a display that cannot scale the image being requested by Fuse. Have you tried switching the graphics filter to double or triple size before turning on full screen mode?

Mark R. Jones · March 2005

Yeah sorry, I just havent worded my mails very well today! Dunno what was up with me! I'm not a ratty fart like I come across in those mails above.

Am I forgiven?

Oh and thanks for the help so far!

Fred · March 2005

On 2005-03-07 00:01, Mark R Jones wrote:
Am I forgiven?

Sure.

Oh and thanks for the help so far!

No problem, let us know the details about your Mac, display and the results you get when switching to full screen with the double and triple size graphics filters on and we'll see what we can do to sort out the problem.

Paul van der Laan · March 2005

By the way, ZXSP has a border too if you resize the window by dragging it. I don't know why the author chose to hide it by default. :(

And MacSpectacle might have been the best emulator for OS 9, but the 128K implementation was seriously flawed.

Mark R. Jones · March 2005

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No problem, let us know the details about your Mac, display and the results you get when switching to full screen with the double and triple size graphics filters on and we'll see what we can do to sort out the problem.
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Sorry AGAIN! I found the option for 'Fuse' to make the screen bigger. I've been a big dummy! :(

Philip Kendall · March 2005

If \"full screen\" mode has a great big black border, that's still a problem with Fuse, even if double/triple size modes are OK for you.

If you're still seeing this, could you file a bug via the Fuse project page and we'll take a look at it. Obviously, as many details as you can give about your setup as possible will help us :)

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Emulators on Mac OSX

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