From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Eagle <eagle@linuxcrypt.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] A dream of mine: the ability to run m68k NeXT applications
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:18:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090519201853.GA3986@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0C4391A-BFD1-4091-ABF8-1F0EF06C3303@linuxcrypt.com>
Eagle wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I have a dream. Well, several actually, but two that are applicable
> here.
>
> The first is: I am interested in having the ability to run m68k NeXT
> applications. There are potentially several ways to do this, but two
> come to mind:
> 1- a CPU-only emulator that runs on i386 NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, similar to
> what Apple used during the transition from m68k to PPC.
> 2- a full-blown NeXT hardware emulator.
>
> I am interested in this because I have some m68k-only NeXT
> applications that I want to be able to run.
CPU emulation is quite easy.
The bits which are hard work are system call translation and hardware
emulation, unfortunately at least one is required to run apps for a
different OS :-)
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-19 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-19 19:40 [Qemu-devel] A dream of mine: the ability to run m68k NeXT applications Eagle
2009-05-19 20:10 ` François Revol
2009-05-19 21:39 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-05-21 15:53 ` Eagle
2009-05-19 20:18 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-05-19 20:26 ` Eagle
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