Bobbin, an Apple ][ emulator in your terminal! Useful for accelerated software development

[micahcowan]

Announcing Bobbin v0.4, an Apple Emulator.
Why Yet Another Emulator? What does Bobbin do that Nintendon’t?

 

Bobbin:

• Runs entirely in your terminal, using either standard input/output, or a curses screen display
• Can be used in shell scripts to accept typed text from standard input, and emit program output to standard output
• Can watch a program binary file for changes, and reload itself with the new program binary when it does, greatly accelerating development cycles for software on the 8-bit Apple

 

Get it at https://github.com/micahcowan/bobbin/releases/tag/v0.4 

 

Bobbin is distributed in source form only; you must be comfortable building software via ./configure && make && make install. I will not make myself available to help you build and install (unless it’s due to a bug). You also really want to have ncurses installed, unless you only want to use the standard input/output interface (no screen representation).

 

Bobbin is written in C for modern, standards-conformant Unix OSes. It is tested on MacOS Ventura, and on Ubuntu Linux running under Windows WSL.

 

Here are a couple of videos (of older versions) in action, demonstrating some key features: