xAce is an open source emulator for the Jupiter Ace that runs under most flavours of Unix.
The Jupiter ACE is the real *outsider* micro from the 80’s. Instead of having BASIC as the programming language it had FORTH.
It was designed by two guys who had worked at Sinclair Research Ltd and were responsible for the famous Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum. They are Steven Vickers and Richard Altwasser.
xAce runs on a variety of Unix platforms and has been tested most thoroughly on Linux. It was written by Edward Patel and based on a ZX81 emulator called xz81 written by Russell Marks, which was in turn based on Ian Collier’s xz80, a ZX Spectrum emulator for X.
Website: lawrencewoodman.github.io/xAce
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Edward Patel
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
xAce is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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