How To Install fuse-emulator-sdl on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-emulator-sdl on Ubuntu.
What is fuse-emulator-sdl
fuse-emulator-sdl is:
Fuse is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator. It supports several models (including 16K/48K/128K/+2/+2A/+3 and some clones), with quite faithful emulation of the display and sound.
Its features include:
- Accurate Spectrum 16K/48K/128K/+2/+2A/+3 emulation.
- Working Spectrum +3e and SE, Timex TC2048, TC2068 and TS2068, Pentagon 128, “512” (Pentagon 128 with extra memory) and 1024 and Scorpion ZS 256 emulation.
- Runs at true Speccy speed on any computer you’re likely to try it on.
- It can load Z80, SZX and SNA snapshots, TAP and TZX virtual-tape files (including accelerated loading), MDR microdrive images and DSK floppy disk images, among many others.
- Sound.
- Built-in debugger.
- Emulation of most of the common joysticks used on the Spectrum (including Kempston, Sinclair and Cursor joysticks).
- Emulation of some of the printers you could attach to a Spectrum.
- Support for the RZX input recording file format, including rollback and ‘competition mode’.
- Recording of movies to FMF files.
- Emulation of the Currah µSource, DivIDE, DivMMC, Interface 1, Kempston mouse, Multiface One/128/3, Spectrum +3e, ZXATASP, ZXCF and ZXMMC interfaces.
- Emulation of the Covox, Fuller audio box, Melodik and SpecDrum audio interfaces.
- Emulation of the Beta 128, +D, Didaktik 80/40, DISCiPLE and Opus Discovery disk interfaces.
- Emulation of the Spectranet and SpeccyBoot network interfaces.
- Support for the Recreated ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard.
This package provides binaries for the SDL version of Fuse.
There are three methods to install fuse-emulator-sdl on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fuse-emulator-sdl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fuse-emulator-sdl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fuse-emulator-sdl
Install fuse-emulator-sdl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fuse-emulator-sdl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fuse-emulator-sdl
Install fuse-emulator-sdl Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fuse-emulator-sdl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fuse-emulator-sdl
How To Uninstall fuse-emulator-sdl on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fuse-emulator-sdl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fuse-emulator-sdl
Uninstall fuse-emulator-sdl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fuse-emulator-sdl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fuse-emulator-sdl
Remove fuse-emulator-sdl Configurations and Data
To remove fuse-emulator-sdl configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fuse-emulator-sdl
Remove fuse-emulator-sdl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fuse-emulator-sdl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fuse-emulator-sdl
Dependencies
fuse-emulator-sdl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-emulator-sdl package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.