BlastEm for Mavericks

This repo is a slightly modified version of the BlastEm emulator that can build and run on Mac OS X Mavericks.

Notes

• This build was designed for Mavericks only in mind. It might not work on the latest macOS, however it should Just Work(TM) with 10.9 to 10.15?

Overview (taken from https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/)

BlastEm is an open source, higly accurate emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive that runs on modest hardware. It is the first emulator to properly run Titan's impressive Overdrive 2 demo and it is the only other emulator besides Genesis Plus GX that can properly run the original Overdrive. It is the only emulator other than Exodus that passes Nemesis' VDP FIFO Testing ROM, can display "Direct Color DMA" demos and emulates CRAM contention (aka CRAM dots).

The project's original README file is available here.

Todo

• Create build instructions for other users (BUILDING.md)
  • The bare minimum should include: MacPorts, MacPorts GCC (with $CC env), MacPorts GLEW, MacPorts SDL2

Repository details

You can visit the Mercurial repository normally here: https://www.retrodev.com/repos/blastem/

The source code featured in this repository is equivalent to BlastEm commit e75638f42420 (dated 20th April 2026).
You can download the source code as it was by visiting this link: https://www.retrodev.com/repos/blastem/archive/e75638f42420.zip

License

This project (pursuant to the GNU General Public License) inherits BlastEm's licensing. You can find the license in COPYING or LICENSE.

BlastEm is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or higher.
This gives you the right to redistribute and/or modify the program as long as you follow the terms of the license.
See the file COPYING for full license details.