Re: TOS platform (Re: Opera)

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> > For PC - ok. For Mac, I meant 68k Apples.
> 
> 68k-Apples are dead. If you want to use Mac-Soft in a reasonable speed you
> need a PowerMac (ok, they are not dead right now, but is it really worth
> spending much coding capacity to do an emulation which will be obsolete in
> one or two years?)

It might supply some Mac programs. I know that having MiSIE (m$ie) on
Atari may be rather impressive for PC users and having a Mac on Atari may
make Mac users jealous, but adv. stuff like this may make TOS platform
more attractive for people from the outside.

> The main thing we would have to do is to rewrite those part of TOS which
> are used by Mint and to recompile Mint for ppc. Nearly all Mintos-Stuff is
> available as source-code, so it is possible to recompile it to make it
> run native.

That means BIOS, XBIOS and GEMDOS. How about running m68k programs on that
rewritten system?

Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
mail: draco@mi.com.pl
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/
http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl/~draco/

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