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4/16/95 Ok, so now you have it. Version 0.88r, until recently known as 0.872d, which has pretty much been sitting around on my hard drive for six months. And now it's on yours, ha ha! In case this was a random acquitision, STM is Apple II+ emulator. STM's essential theory of operation has changed somewhat since the last release. STM itself is not much more than a process scheduler (well, a little more, but I'm working on cutting it down). Most of its "Apple II nature" comes from modules loaded at runtime. As soon as the interface is documented (see, I say that like maybe somebody else is gonna do it for me), you'll be able to write your own modules to emulate your favorite peripherals. I'd like to say, right up front, that though I (Kevin) am writing this up, Jim Nitchals has made invaluable contributions to STM. All copyright violations were made by me, before Jim even started working on it. Running STM STM requires a mac running system 7 or higher, with some version of QuickTime installed (speed regulation will suffer without QuickTime). At least 3 megs of free ram are required, too. Hey, maybe I should work for Microsoft! Um, there may be other stuff it needs too that I've forgotten, and which I don't check for, and it'll crash if you don't have STM 0.88r docs Page 1 Mit, 16. Nov 2011 them. But basically, if you're living in the '90s, you should be fine. Before you start STM for the first time (like I really think you're reading this first…), make sure that you have the following things all in the same folder: • STM application (duh) • A text file named 'STM config' • A file named 'prefs' (yeah, someday I'll put it where it belongs) • A bunch of little files with cool names and spiffy icons (the full suite is: 6502, speaker, video, disk II, keyboard, language card, and paddles) Now, when you start STM, you'll get just a video window (or, if you don't have the 'prefs' file handy, you'll get no windows). STM has a bunch of potential windows, and unless you have a big monitor you have to pick which ones you want. They're under the Windows menu. When you have them set up like you want them, you can fix them in place by choosing 'Save prefs' under the File menu. Incidentally, the windows do take time to update when they're open, so if you're on a slow machine (030 or lower), be careful how many you keep up. Some of the modules have configuration options; if so, they'll appear in the sub-menus under the Modules menu. The default option settings are usually pretty reasonable, as behoove default option settings. If you get a blank video window, and you're not in 256-color mode, switch (unless you don't mind blank video). In general, STM is set up to run in 256-color mode, and you may sacrifice a lot of performance if you're not there. STM starts up in a paused mode; to start the emulation up, choose Run from the File menu (or command-R). If you run into something on a menu that isn't menti…