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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU and m68k - Has anyone looked at the Syn68k core in Executor ?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:43:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B6B070.4080607@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A69CFE5B2F49D91186C1000BCD9DBD03E2AACF@otausminexs.au.otis.com>

IMHO the most interesting part of Executor is the Mac OS API emulation 
layer, but unfortunately it has little relation with QEMU.

Fabrice.

Armistead, Jason wrote:
> I came across a product called Executor from a company called Ardi
> (www.ardi.com).  Basically it's a Macintosh 68k emulator that uses a 680x0
> core called Syn68k.  By the sounds of it, it does a lot of the same dynamic
> recompilation as QEMU does.  The Ardi web site suggests that the code is
> either going to be sold or maybe released as Open Source.
> 
> Has anyone from the QEMU project (especially Fabrice) contacted the Syn68k
> authors with a view to helping some of it to "live on" in QEMU ?  I notice
> the m68k support in QEMU is only at a "Dev Only" level.  Perhaps some of the
> "lessons learnt" with Ardi's Executor and Syn68k would move this along
> further.
> 
> The reason I came across this is that I've been looking for a HP Apollo
> Domain emulator to resurrect some old Apollo systems without needing to
> resurrect the hardware they ran on.  The Apollo Domain systems were Motorola
> 68k family machines.  For the most part, the hardware in these systems is
> not that complex.  Probably on a similar footing to the Sparcstation
> supported in QEMU.  Support for Apollo hardware was included into Linux 68k
> / NetBSD and OpenBSD.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-13 13:57 [Qemu-devel] QEMU and m68k - Has anyone looked at the Syn68k core in Executor ? Armistead, Jason
2006-07-13 14:50 ` Marius Groeger
2006-07-13 20:43 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2006-07-13 21:07   ` Paul Brook

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