15 Feb 1999

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

Tiles:
	README     - this file
	COPYING	   - the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
	forth.txt  - crash course in Forth
	Imakefile  - xmkmf file for creating a system dependent
                     Makefile
	makefile.org - a short makefile for building xace
	ace.rom	   - the rom
	cbops.c    - Z80 0xCB operands handling
	edops.c    - Z80 0xED operands handling
	xace.icon  - an icon
	xmain.c    - the X engine, main entry and ACE specific
	z80.c      - Z80 Emulation
	z80.h      - some macros for Z80 memory access
	z80ops.c   - Z80 operands handling

Compilation:
	If you have 'xmkmf'? Run it first and then 'make' xace.

	If you don't have 'xmkmf' then try just to run 'make' with
	'-f makefile.org' and hope for the best!
	I haven't done any bigger efforts to make it compile for a
	lot of platforms. But its short and should be easy to
	adapt for different platforms.

	If it compiles try running 'xace' and you're off. (I hope)

The ROM?
	The distribution includes a copy of the Jupiter ACE ROM image. 
	AFAIK there are no problems with this - I do not have a clue 
	who bought the remains of Boldfield Computing when they went 
	broke. (I can't find any trace of their existence) 

Version:
	v0.4 third distribution. *can now also run on 16 bit display.

	The emulator is up and running. I've added some loading and
	save capabilities. There is still no sound implemented yet. 
	Now tested on SGI, FreeBSD, Linux and SunOS platforms.

Description:
	This emulator is made by me, Edward Patel. 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 how had worked at Sinclair Research Ltd and was
	responsible for the famous Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum. 
	They are Steven Vickers and Richard Altwasser.
	For a FAQ (1999) see http://users.aol.com/autismuk/ace/faq.htm

	I made it for the fun of it. As a base I used Russell Marks
	ZX81 emulator xz81. Which he based on Ian Collier xz80, a 
	ZX Spectrum emulator for X. The xz81 can be found (1997) at
	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/emulators/zx/z81-0.2.tar.gz

Others:
	Paul Robson (autismuk@aol.com) has made a DOS version and is also
	the maintainer of the FAQ mentioned earlier.

Credits:
	Steven Vickers and Richard Altwasser
	Russell Marks
	Ian Collier (Ian.Collier@comlab.ox.ac.uk)
	Paul Robson (autismuk@aol.com)
	Michael Josefsson (mj@isy.liu.se)
	Ronald Kneusel (rkneusel@post.its.mcw.edu)	

Contact:
	e-mail: edward@clarus.se or tiletech@hem.passagen.se
	
Share and enjoy! 

-Edward


"An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot" - Rich Julius