# xroar mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für xroar in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:xroar
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install xroar
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:xroar
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.12.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Dragon and Tandy 8-bit computer emulator
- **Homepage:** <https://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-28T02:25:32Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- xroar (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.12.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

XRoar is Ciaran Anscomb's emulator for Dragon 32/64, Tandy Color Computer models 1, 2, and 3, the Tandy MC-10, and related 6809-family machines. Its package identity is preservation-oriented: the executable is useful only when paired with legally obtained ROM images, disk or cassette media, and configuration describing the target machine.

### Projektgeschichte

The public source history identifies XRoar as a long-running emulator project by Ciaran Anscomb, with copyright beginning in 2003 in mirrored README metadata and current official documentation for version 1.11. The project started around Dragon and CoCo 1/2 compatibility and grew into a broader emulator for close relatives built around Motorola 6809-era hardware.

By the 1.x series, the official manual describes emulation of Dragon 32, Dragon 64, Dragon 200-E, Tandy CoCo 1/2/3, Tandy MC-10, Matra and Hachette Alice 4K, prototype machines, disk-controller cartridges, sound cartridges, memory expansions, cassette formats, joysticks, printers, and video modes.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

XRoar's adoption is concentrated in retrocomputing and preservation communities rather than mainstream software development. Its official site links Debian snapshot builds, an Ubuntu PPA, Mac OS X binaries, Windows archives and installers, an online version, and archives where users may find firmware dumps if they cannot extract ROMs from physical machines.

The addition of CoCo 3 and MC-10 support made the package more than a Dragon emulator: it became a cross-platform way to run, test, and preserve software across a family of machines with overlapping but distinct hardware behavior.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users install XRoar, provide firmware ROMs in platform-specific directories such as `~/.xroar/roms`, `~/Library/XRoar/roms`, or `%LOCALAPPDATA%\XRoar\roms`, then select a machine and load cassette, disk, ROM cartridge, BASIC, HEX, or S-record media.

The command line and configuration file are central to package use. Options can select machines, cartridges, video output, keyboard layout, disk behavior, joysticks, and tracing; the same options can be stored in `xroar.conf` for repeatable emulation setups.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

XRoar is a good package-nerd case because the package is only the emulator core. The useful system is assembled from executable, ROM search paths, media images, configuration, and sometimes platform-specific GUI integration.

It also shows why old-computer emulators stay valuable in package managers: they preserve runnable environments for software that no longer has current hardware, and they make regression testing and historical exploration scriptable from modern Unix shells.

### Zeitleiste

- 2003: Public copyright metadata in source mirrors places the project at the start of a long-running XRoar codebase.
- 2010s: XRoar packages and ports spread across Unix-like systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and older contributed mobile/Amiga-style ports.
- 2021: Community discussion notes newer support for Tandy CoCo 3 and MC-10 alongside Dragon and CoCo 1/2 emulation.
- 2026-05-12: The official site lists source version 1.11.
- 2026: The manual for version 1.11 documents Dragon, CoCo, MC-10, Alice, cartridge, disk, cassette, and video emulation.

### Related projects

- Dragon 32/64 and Tandy Color Computer software archives provide programs and firmware images used with XRoar.
- XRoar Online is a browser-facing version linked from the official site.
- asm6809, also linked from the 6809.org.uk site, is a related 6809 assembler for Dragon-targeted code.
- MAME overlaps in preservation goals but covers a much broader machine set.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/jedie/XRoar>
- <https://www.6809.org.uk/git/xroar.git>
- <https://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/>
- <https://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/doc/README>
- <https://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/doc/xroar.shtml>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für xroar wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- macOS: ~/Library/XRoar/xroar.conf
- Unix: ~/.xroar/xroar.conf
- Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\XRoar\xroar.conf, xroar.conf in the executable/current directory

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/xroar.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/xroar.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph