Clock Signal

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/github/license/TomHarte/CLK?style=for-the-badge)![GitHub Release Date](https://img.shields.io/github/release-date/TomHarte/CLK?label=Latest%20Release\u0026style=for-the-badge)![GitHub last commit](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/TomHarte/CLK?style=for-the-badge)![GitHub repo size](https://img.shields.io/github/repo-size/TomHarte/CLK?style=for-the-badge)\n\n# Clock Signal\n\n\u003cimg align=\"left\" src=\"READMEImages/Icon.png\" alt=\"Clock Signal Application Icon\" /\u003e Clock Signal (\u0027CLK\u0027) is an emulator that seeks to be invisible. Users directly launch classic software, avoiding the learning curves associated with emulators and with classic machines.\n\nmacOS and source releases are [hosted on GitHub](https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases). A Qt-based Linux build is available as a [Snap](https://snapcraft.io/clock-signal). \n\nThis emulator seeks to offer:\n\n* single-click load of any piece of source media for any supported platform;\n* with a heavy signal processing tilt for accurate reproduction of original outputs;\n* avoiding latency as much as possible.\n\nIt currently contains emulations of the:\n\n* Acorn Electron;\n* Amstrad CPC;\n* Apple II/II+ and IIe;\n* Atari 2600;\n* Atari ST;\n* BBC Micro;\n* ColecoVision;\n* Commodore Plus 4;\n* Commodore Vic-20;\n* Enterprise 64/128;\n* Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512Ke, and Plus;\n* MSX 1 and 2;\n* Oric 1/Atmos;\n* Sega Master System;\n* Sinclair ZX80/81;\n* Sinclair ZX Spectrum;\n* Tandy CoCo 1/2; and\n* Thomson MO5/6.\n\nAlso present but less rounded are the:\n\n* Acorn Archimedes;\n* Commodore Amiga; and\n* early PC compatible.\n\nOn the Mac it is a native Cocoa and Metal application; under Linux, BSD and other UNIXes and UNIX-alikes it uses OpenGL and can be built either with Qt or with SDL.\n\n## Single-step Loading\n\nThrough static and runtime analysis CLK seeks automatically to select and configure the appropriate machine to run any provided disk, tape or ROM; to issue any commands necessary to run the software contained on the",
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