This is an emulator for the Commander X16 computer system. You can find out more about the Commander X16 computer in the following videos.
You can start x16emu either by clicking the icon on the desktop menu or from the command line. The latter allows you to specify additional arguments.
When starting x16emu without arguments, it will pick up the system ROM (rom.bin) bundled with the snap. The system ROM filename/path can be overridden with the -rom command line argument.
-keymap tells the KERNAL to switch to a specific keyboard layout. Use it without an argument to view the supported layouts.
-sdcard lets you specify an SD card image (partition table + FAT32).
-prg lets you specify a .prg file that gets injected into RAM after start.
-bas lets you specify a BASIC program in ASCII format that automatically typed in (and tokenized).
-run executes the application specified through -prg or -bas using RUN or SYS, depending on the load address.
-echo causes all KERNAL/BASIC output to be printed to the host's terminal. Enable this and use the BASIC command "LIST" to convert a BASIC program to ASCII (detokenize).
-log enables one or more types of logging (e.g. -log KS):
K: keyboard (key-up and key-down events)
S: speed (CPU load, frame misses)
V: video I/O reads and writes
-debug enables the debugger.
Run x16emu -h to see all command line options.
This is an unofficial build made with ♥️ from the following sources.
The yaml used to generate this snap can be found at
Find out more at http://commanderx16.com
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Snap is available for CentOS 7.6+, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command:
sudo yum install epel-release
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Commander X16 Emulator, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install x16emu
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