[Coco] Setting up xroar on linux

[Ciaran Anscomb]

Johann Klasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 05:53:35PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> > 
> > I just downloaded and compiled xroar from the xroar website. It compiled 
> > fine, but I can't figure out where to put the ROM files, and how to 
> > configure xroar to start as a coco emulation.
> > 
> > Any clues?
> 
> Got my ROMs from 
> http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=894
> 
> My compiled xroar is located at /pd/xroar/
> 
> The above .rom files have to be installed in right place ...
> 
> sudo mkdir -p /pd/xroar/share/xroar/roms
> sudo cp -p *.rom /pd/xroar/share/xroar/roms/.

Alternatively, have them in your home directory under "~/.xroar/roms/".

> #/usr/local/bin/xroar -ao help
> #       oss        OSS audio
> #       pulse      Pulse audio
> #       sdl        SDL audio
> #       alsa       ALSA audio
> #       null       No audio

An order picked to work around various bugs...

> # SDL is lame (timing problems breaks the
> # emulation speed!)

Interesting - should be fine - emu should adapt to whatever samplerate
SDL gives it.  Latest release defaults to -ao-fragments 2 - you could
try raising that.

..ciaran