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- > > What I want to know is : What is this emulator ? I mean is it a
- > > software emulator ? In this case, wouldn't it be possible to
- > > modify and recompile the code for our Falcons. With an
- >
- > It's a MAC emulator that uses a ROM image from the MAC and you can run
-
- That's right.
-
- > all versions of the MAC OS up to 7.5.X (I think). Like STonX I belive.
-
- Apart from the fact that STonX emulates the processor as well and therefore
- is not very fast (quite an understatement).
-
- > It doesn't need any hardware at all it's only software.
- > I can't see why it wouldn't be ble to do a falcon version, except that
- > you must get the guy who made it to send you the code. :-)
-
- Actually, getting the code should not be a problem. See below.
-
- > > Is there too much technical restrictions to convert this emulator ?
- >
- > I have no idea. :-)
-
- There really shouldn't be.
- It multitasks under AmigaOS and must therefore be relatively 'clean'.
- I'd guess the porting work would mostly consist of replacing hardware
- access routines, such as for keyboard, floppy and hard disk.
- If the emulator can be made to run under MiNT, I think it wouldn't be
- very difficult to do that.
-
- On an ordinary ST we would run into trouble with low memory (the Mac runs
- in supervisor mode, so the protection doesn't matter, but we have ROM in
- the eight lowest bytes which might cause problems), but on a processor with
- MMU it should be easy to map the memory to another place.
-
- Modern Macs can read and write standard 1.4Mb floppies, so there are no
- problems such as those Spectre GCR handled.
-
- > I have heard that someone talked about a Falcon version, but I'm not sure
- > if it was only someone who made that rumor up. Would be nice if someone
- > did do it.
-
- About a year ago, when the BAD MOOD project began, there was some talk on
- Usenet about starting a port of ShapeShifter to the Falcon. I believe Martin
- Griffiths (Griff) was supposed to be the coordinator and it would apparently
- not have been any problem to get the sources for doing a port.
-
- With my emulator experience (QLem), I naturally volunteered to help out, ;-)
- but for some reason I never heard from Griff after his first message.
- Still, it should be quite possible to get such a project going again.
-
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