px68k

About

• X68000 Emulator forked from https://github.com/kenyahiro/px68k/
• Changed to support Apple Silicon Mac. May not work on the other platforms (iOS, Android, PSP, Windows, ...)

Setup

• Please refer to the Original Document
• Necessary ROMs which Sharp made available for free are mirrored here

How to run

• Run px68k -h to show command line arguments

$ ./px68k -h
Usage: ./px68k [-h,--help] [-v,--verbose] [-0,--fd0] [-1,--fd1]

Arguments:
    -h, --help       Show this help message and exit
    -v, --verbose    Verbose output
    -0, --fd0        FD0 image path
    -1, --fd1        FD1 image path

• Then run like this

./px68k --fd0 human302.xdf

• F12 shows some optional parameters / floppy disk change

HDD

How to make a SASI disk (up to 40MB)

• Create an empty 40MB file

dd bs=4096 count=10240 if=/dev/zero of=hdd0.hdf

• Edit $HOME/.keropi/config and add HDD0=hdd0.hdf
• Run Human68k and run switch to edit the max HDD to 1 (or more)
• Run Human68k and run format to initialize it (quick) and allocate space (takes a few mins)
• After booting from the SASI HDD (A drive), copy Human68k system from fdd0 (B drive) by copyall b:\bin\copyall b:\*.* a:

How to make a SCSI disk

• There is no easy way. Please use XM6 or other emulator and copy the created one

Keyboard Mapping

• Key assignment changed for US keyboard
• Plus, the following keys are added
  • F13/PrintScrieen ... 'ろ' key on X68000. If you press SHIFT + F13, it'll input _ (underscore)
  • F14 ... Roman key to input half width Katakana
  • F15 ... Opt.1 key to boot from Floppy Drive 0 even if the default is HDD0 or SCSI0
  • Left Option (Apple) / Alt (Win) ... toggle no-wait (same as F12 menu's one)

Limitation

• Mouse support it limited. SX-Window's mouse cursor doesn't automatically synchronize with the host OS

TODO

• WinDRV to send/receive files between the emulator and Mac