xAce is Back in Active Development and Looking For Contributors
Written by Lawrence Woodman on 6th May 2010
Tags: Emulation, Jupiter Ace, Retro
xAce is a great Jupiter Ace emulator and is in fact the one that I use the most, however it hasn't been actively developed since 1997 and therefore has some shortcomings.  I am keen to improve the emulator and have quite a few plans for it.  I have been in touch with Edward Patel, the original author of xAce, and he is happy to see xAce development continued.  The code is licensed under the GPL v2 and I know that people are working separately on improvements to it, but think it would great if we could all work together to get the most out of this emulator and to make sure that we can use each of our strengths to best advantage.

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xAce - A Jupiter Ace Emulator for Unix (Patched to correct garbled display)
Written by Lawrence Woodman on 12th February 2009
Tags: Emulation, Forth, Jupiter Ace, Retro
I love the idea of the Jupiter Ace and think that the choice of the forth programming language was perfect for such a low-spec machine.  It is a real shame that forth wasn't chosen for more computers of the period, instead of their using basic.  I have not found many emulators for this machine and only one that I could run natively under Linux.  This did, however, need patching, as without it the screen wasn't displaying properly.  I will show how to patch it in this short post.

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