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Re: New Kaypro Emulator

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Uwe Naß wrote:
> ECNeilson wrote:
>> I have released a new Kaypro emulator on GitHub.  This all started 
>> during an ice storm and my desire to verify my archived Kaypro 4-84 
>> disks were properly archived.  I extended a publicly available Kaypro 
>> II emulator on GitHub, but I went a little overboard.  Now you have 
>> support for Kaypro II, Kaypro 4-84, TurboROM, KayPLUS, and Kaypro10.  
>> There is hard disk support for the Kaypro10 and TurboROM, and RTC and 
>> serial port for 4-84 variants.  You can run the program in terminal 
>> mode or natively using the chargen ROMs. NZ-COM is also installed on 
>> the TurboROM_nz.hd image with ZSDOS and date/time stamping support.
>>
>> Runs on Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and even Windows now.  The default mode is 
>> a standard 4-84 - Just run "izkaypro".
>>
>> If you want to run the "ultimate" Kaypro, do "izkaypro --model 
>> ultimate --chargen"
>>
>> That will give you the TurboROM version with HDs on drives A and B and 
>> drives C and D as floppy drives - plus NZ-COM on drive A (type "nzcom" 
>> to activate).
>>
>> Other ROMs will probably work, I just haven't tested them.  You can 
>> use a custom ROM via command line --rom. Do "izkaypro -h" to see options.
>>
>> The software is here and README.md has all the details.  Compile with 
>> "cargo build --release"
>>
>> https://github.com/eneilson-zz/izkaypro
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> ECNeilson
>>
> Hi all,
> 
> I never used "cargo" (!) So I used my package manager (Yast, SuSE) to 
> install this package, but what's next? How to build the .izkaypro 
> binaries out of the github respository?
> 
> Sorry, but I'm lost......
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Uwe
Hi ECNeilson,

everything works now! Under SuSE the package wayland-devel must be 
installed, additionally. Only one remark: Calling izkaypro it displays 
the first line more than 70 times (?)
What`s wrong?

thanks again,

Uwe

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New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-06 07:36 -0600
  Re: New Kaypro Emulator Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2026-03-06 14:29 -0800
    Re: New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-06 17:06 -0600
  Re: New Kaypro Emulator Uwe Naß <unass@astro.uni-bonn.de> - 2026-03-07 11:11 +0100
    Re: New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-08 20:25 -0500
      Re: New Kaypro Emulator Uwe Naß <unass@astro.uni-bonn.de> - 2026-03-09 10:23 +0100
    Re: New Kaypro Emulator Uwe Naß <unass@astro.uni-bonn.de> - 2026-03-09 14:02 +0100
      Re: New Kaypro Emulator ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2026-03-09 16:58 -0400
  Re: New Kaypro Emulator Bryan <esnntp@wereboar.com> - 2026-03-07 10:20 -0500

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