Further PERQ Emulator progress (and a download!)

Ray Arachelian writes: I like C# (and 'managed' code in general) because it allows me to focus on the problem rather than the tool. I can fool around with ideas and write fairly clean code in C# very quickly and I don't have to worry about mundane details like memory management, bad pointers, and stupid "shoot yourself in the foot" mistakes (I consider myself a good programmer, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate a language that helps me write better code). I wrote most of the code for this emulator in my spare time over just 5 weeks at the end of 2006, it just got moved to the back burner until recently. Yes, it's probably not as fast as something written in pure C but I'm not too concerned about that. The portability issue is unfortunate, but I'm hoping that Mono will make it possible to run it on non-Windows platforms. (It looks like Mono now has some manner of Winforms support, so it may not even be necessary to make any changes at all...) I wouldn't mind rewriting it in C after getting everything worked out in C#, to make it more palatable for other OSes. But it helps me immensely to write it in a high-level OOP language first to keep my code (and my mind) in order. (I don't consider C++ to be "high level" :)). I've tried to keep the emulation code fairly abstracted from the UI (there's really only a window and keyboard/mouse input, so it should be trivial to port to a different system if need be.) Thanks. It's been a fun process and I hope that someone somewhere gets some use out of it once I get it working better :). Josh