Running The Emulator

How to run the emulator depends to a large extent on what system you are using, but there are some steps which are common to all:

1. First, open a command prompt - this could be an MS-DOS window, xterm or command tool, depending on your system.
2. Change into the directory which contains the emulator.
3. Make sure that your CLASSPATH environment variable contains either a . for current directory or contains the path to the emulator in full. This variable tells the Java runtime engine where to load classes from (.class files). It must also include the location of the Java system libraries - see JDK documentation for more information.
4. Run the emulator with the command java Spectrum.Spectrum
5. The emulator window should now appear. See basic usage for more information.