FAQ

• Q: Xemu is a MEGA65 emulator, right?

• A: Not true. Xemu is a collection of emulators within my "Xemu framework". Though it's true, many people take attention only because of the MEGA65 emulator, and probably not interested in the others. So technically speaking some would say, which emulator in the Xemu project is meant, like "Xemu/MEGA65" or "Xemu/CLCD" is the MEGA65 or the Commodore LCD (CLCD for short) emulators inside the Xemu project

• Q: Why is the name "Xemu"? Are you aware about the Xbox emulator project named as "Xemu" as well? Shouldn't be your project renamed?

• A: For the second question, yes, I've heard about it and it was surprising for me, since I am not interested in games/consoles (thus I missed emulators of them as well). So I originally named my project "Xemu" without knowing about the "other" Xemu. But for now I'm so used the name, I wouldn't like to change it. I think the possibility of confusion is rather small, since we're talking about very different kind of emulators. There is no meaning of "Xemu" too much, the full name is "X-Emulators" (note the plural form, and see the question of Xemu being a MEGA65 emulator only - hint: no it's not) by the way, "X" meaning "unknown" or whatever, or (my original intent) the habit, that in UNIX world GUI programs (running on top of X11) usually have names starting with "X" like "xterm" (a TERMinal running on top of X11). So, originally Xemu wanted to mean "collection of EMUlators running on top of X11, targeting UNIX-like systems (Linux, etc)". Though, for sure, since a while I've ported it to be able to run on Windows and Mac too.

• Q: I have (insert some problem here) problem with running Xemu on Windows or Mac.

• A: You should be aware that I've never used Windows or Mac as my daily driver (not at home, nor in workplace), my port of Xemu to these projects are mostly done "blindly" not even using those OSes, just cross-compiling on Linux, or using some CI services to have access of Mac builder environments (at least for Windows, it's kinda trivial to cross-compile on Linux). Thus it's always hard for me to resolve non-UNIX-like-OS issues in general, as I am not even user of those OSes.

• Q: Why Xemu emulators don't have some built-in debugger/monitor?

• A: This is something I don't plan to do ever. The reason: my idea, that debugger/monitor must be an external entity, so people can write debuggers as they wish, there can be even multiple ones ("freedom of choice") by interfacing with Xemu (thus, ideally some can even develop "plugin" for some IDEs for example). Indeed, currently it would be problematic to write some, since most of the emulators in the Xemu project can't even provide such an interface (at least for now). To be more specific, this question is more frequent with the MEGA65 emulator in the Xemu project. There, the situation is even more specific. A real MEGA65 has a debug/monitor interface, and requires to have an external debugger on your PC/Mac. Since Xemu emulates MEGA65, the same approach must be provided. This means that we can have a common workflow, ie a debugger can attach to both of a real MEGA65 and an emulated (by Xemu) MEGA65, which is really nice and consistent. Also, there would be simply no man power to code internal-to-Xemu debuggers, I don't have even "man power" to code emulators well/quick enough ... For MEGA65, the "external" utility to be able to attach to both of real and emulated MEGA65 is m65dbg however that's not the scope of the Xemu project.