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| ost.apollo.mess0149/README - 2013-07-15 - Hans Ostermeyer            |
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ost.apollo.mess0149 is a snapshot of my development environment for the
Apollo emulator included in MESS 0.149.

Using this (instead of the bare MESS source or Windows binary distribution)
has the following benefits:
 * development documention is included (currently not available in MESS web pages)
 * the Makefile may be useful to find out how to get, build and run the emulation
 * mess will be build to provide Ethernet access between emulation and host PC,
   other Linux PCs, Apollo emulations or Apollo workstations
 * mess will be build as "tiny mess" including only the Apollo emulation
   (smaller footprint, faster compilation); may be changed in the Makefile
 * patches are included for some new bugs introduced in MESS 0.149 

Please look at:
 * doc/Readme
 * doc/Howto.html
 * doc/issues.html 
 * doc/license.txt
 * doc/ChangeLog

Building and running the Mess Apollo emulation on Linux or Mac OS X
should be as simple as:

 1. tar zxf ost.apollo.mess0149-130715.tar.gz
 2. cd ost.apollo.mess0149
 3. read files README, doc/Readme and doc/Howto.html
 4. build mess with: make all
 5. if any errors occur, install missing packages and repeat step 4
 6. run the Apollo emulation with: make test1
