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1.1     ! root        1: Hatari UI
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        !             4: Hatari UI is an out-of-process user interface for the Hatari Atari
        !             5: ST/STe/TT/Falcon emulator and its built-in debugger which can
        !             6: (optionally) embed the Hatari emulator window.
        !             7: 
        !             8: Having the UI in another process allows doing it with a higher level
        !             9: language and avoiding adding GUI toolkit dependencies to Hatari
        !            10: itself. The UI is done with PyGtk i.e. in Python language, using the
        !            11: Gtk widget set.
        !            12: 
        !            13: The main points of this new UI over the Hatari internal one are its
        !            14: configurability and providing a GUI for the (console based) debugger
        !            15: included with the Hatari emulator.
        !            16: 
        !            17: Note: this is an additional UI, the built-in Hatari SDL UI isn't being
        !            18: replaced or going anywhere!
        !            19: 
        !            20: 
        !            21: Requirements
        !            22: ------------
        !            23: 
        !            24: My guess at the required versions for the dependencies are:
        !            25: - Python >=2.4
        !            26: - PyGtk >= 2.8   (on Ubuntu PyGtk is in python-gtk2 package)
        !            27: 
        !            28: You will need also Hatari emulator version newer than v1.0.1.
        !            29: Currently (2008-07-10) you can get it only from its CVS, like
        !            30: you got Hatari UI itself.
        !            31: 
        !            32: Hatari UI has been tested only on Linux (Ubuntu v7.04) and Debian
        !            33: Etch.) I would assume it works also on other unix systems such as
        !            34: Apple OSX. It won't work on Windows (the required Windows socket
        !            35: support is missing from the Hatari emulator).
        !            36: 
        !            37: Embedding the Hatari emulator window is currently supported only for
        !            38: systems using an X window system (from libSDL sources it would seem
        !            39: that Windows would also support window embedding, but support for that
        !            40: would need to be added both to Hatari and Hatari UI).
        !            41: 
        !            42: 
        !            43: Running
        !            44: -------
        !            45: 
        !            46: Hatari UI needs a Hatari configuration file to know what are
        !            47: the current Hatari version options and their default values.
        !            48: If you have never saved the options from the internal Hatari
        !            49: UI (invoked normally by F12), do it before using this
        !            50: external Hatari UI.
        !            51: 
        !            52: Being a Python program, Hatari UI doesn't need to be built.
        !            53: You can just run it from where you extracted it (or checked
        !            54: it out of SF CVS) by calling its wrapper script:
        !            55:        /path/to/script/hatariui
        !            56: 
        !            57: Or you can run just the debugger:
        !            58:        /path/to/script/debugui.py
        !            59: 
        !            60: But you can also install it to system directory by using:
        !            61:        make install
        !            62: 
        !            63: 
        !            64: Notes
        !            65: -----
        !            66: 
        !            67: If UI is started without the embedding option, the actions
        !            68: (in menus and toolbars) have also shortcuts.  They cannot
        !            69: be used when Hatari window is embedded because then those
        !            70: shortcuts couldn't be used with Hatari.
        !            71: 
        !            72: 
        !            73: URL: http://koti.mbnet.fi/tammat/hatari/hatari-ui.shtml

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