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==Host Environments==

===macOS===

For macOS, Clock Signal is a fully-native document model application, which means that the user can simultaneously launch as many different machines as they want, sizing and positioning each independently across multiple displays, arranging their machines into a tabbed interface or performing any other standard Mac windowing actions.

Clock Signal ~~also has an SDL~~-~~based kiosk mode~~, ~~which is compatible with Linux~~ and ~~any~~ other ~~target offering SDL 2.x, at least~~ OpenGL 3.2 and C++11, and ~~which attempts to follow ordinary UNIX conventions as to file naming and locations. It~~ is ~~intended~~ to be launched however the user would normally launch something from the command-line; the target use case is to set up a file association in the user's preferred desktop environment and launch emulated applications by double-clicking on them exactly like the user would launch native ~~applications~~.

===Qt===

Clock Signal provides a full-UI Qt 5 build for X11 users, offering arbitrarily many machines at once and custom machine selection alongside the emulator's preferred automatic machine selection; building for other Qt targets that support OpenGL 3.2 and C++17 is possible but Qt's deficiencies in keyboard handling make platform-specific adaptations a necessity for regular usage, and latency is likely to be higher than with native builds.

~~In neither case does~~ Clock Signal ~~offer much in terms of appreciable interface~~. It ~~currently assumes it can always determine~~ the ~~proper machine and machine configuration automatically based on~~ the ~~software~~ the user ~~wants to run~~ and ~~provides those only after~~ the user ~~has nominated their software~~.

===SDL===

Clock Signal also has an SDL-based kiosk mode, which is compatible with Linux and any other target offering SDL 2.x, at least OpenGL 3.2 and C++17, and which attempts to follow ordinary UNIX conventions as to file naming and locations. It is intended to be launched however the user would normally launch something from the command-line; the target use case is to set up a file association in the user's preferred desktop environment and launch emulated applications by double-clicking on them exactly like the user would launch native applications.

[[Category:Amstrad CPC emulators]]

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 ==Host Environments==
+===macOS===
 For macOS, Clock Signal is a fully-native document model application, which means that the user can simultaneously launch as many different machines as they want, sizing and positioning each independently across multiple displays, arranging their machines into a tabbed interface or performing any other standard Mac windowing actions.
-Clock Signal also has an SDL-based kiosk mode, which is compatible with Linux and any other target offering SDL 2.x, at least OpenGL 3.2 and C++11, and which attempts to follow ordinary UNIX conventions as to file naming and locations. It is intended to be launched however the user would normally launch something from the command-line; the target use case is to set up a file association in the user's preferred desktop environment and launch emulated applications by double-clicking on them exactly like the user would launch native applications.
+===Qt===
+Clock Signal provides a full-UI Qt 5 build for X11 users, offering arbitrarily many machines at once and custom machine selection alongside the emulator's preferred automatic machine selection; building for other Qt targets that support OpenGL 3.2 and C++17 is possible but Qt's deficiencies in keyboard handling make platform-specific adaptations a necessity for regular usage, and latency is likely to be higher than with native builds.
-In neither case does Clock Signal offer much in terms of appreciable interface. It currently assumes it can always determine the proper machine and machine configuration automatically based on the software the user wants to run and provides those only after the user has nominated their software.
+===SDL===
+Clock Signal also has an SDL-based kiosk mode, which is compatible with Linux and any other target offering SDL 2.x, at least OpenGL 3.2 and C++17, and which attempts to follow ordinary UNIX conventions as to file naming and locations. It is intended to be launched however the user would normally launch something from the command-line; the target use case is to set up a file association in the user's preferred desktop environment and launch emulated applications by double-clicking on them exactly like the user would launch native applications.
 [[Category:Amstrad CPC emulators]]