Apple2ix is an Apple //e emulator implemented primarily in C with x86, x86-64, and ARM assembly language for the 65c02 CPU emulation module. In addition you will find a smattering of interface code in Objective-C/Cocoa, Java/Android, and GLSL.
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Apple2ix derives from the apple2-emul-linux project originally coded by various developers in the mid 1990's and FTP-uploaded as source tarballs to the original `tsx-11.mit.edu` Linux archive.
The original software was designed to work from the Linux console rendering via SVGAlib. It ran on par to the 1MHz Apple //e on an i386 (Pentium 100 class) or better machine. Later ports added X11 graphics support based on the original X11 DOOM source code drop, ty JC!
* Portability and code resilience across a wide range of modern platforms including MacOSX, desktop Linux/BSD, iOS, Android -- *But not Windows, just use the excellent [AppleWin](https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin) emulator if you're on Windows!*
* Reasonable emulation fidelity to the original Apple //e machine (timing, video, audio, etc...)
* Language minimalism for core emulation modules (prefer coding in POSIX C over all else), except for CPU module which should be in assembly
* Good platform citizenship for menu system (prefer coding in language-of-choice promoted by platform--e.g.: Objective-C/Swift on Darwin, Java on Android, ...)
For Linux and *BSD, I do not personally relish being a package/port maintainer, so you should `./configure --prefix=...`, `make`, `make install` like it's 1999 ;-)
You will need GCC or Clang compiler and other tools as determined by the `configure` script. Use the source!
