[Coco] Using XRoar (tutorial)

[Louis Ciotti]

Apple made the user library folder hidden by default with the 10.7 and
later releases of Mac OS. (from Mr. Google)

>From a user stand point (again IMO) it makes since for these files to not
be hidden in any way which is why I suggested ~/xroar/

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk>
wrote:

> Louis Ciotti wrote:
> > Good Tutorial.  I think setting up xroar would be easier if it looked for
> > the xroar.conf file and rom images in someplace more common.  On my Mac
> > they are buried in the user library folder which is hidden, so I have to
> > manually enter the location to get there.  Easiest place IMO would be
> > ~/xroar/ but that is just me...
>
> You can use ~/.xroar/xroar.conf (and ~/.xroar/roms/ for ROM images)
> in the Mac OS build.  Also hidden, of course.
>
> I didn't realise Mac OS hid ~/Library/ - is that something that changed
> in later versions?  I've only really used up to 10.6, and I don't
> remember having a problem.  It does seem like the natural place for such
> things in Mac OS to avoid filling up your home directory with visible
> application-specific directories.  Is there a different recommended
> practice?
>
> If you set the XROAR_CONF_PATH and/or XROAR_ROM_PATH environment
> variables, you can override all of those defaults.
>
> ..ciaran
>
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