Re: FreeAES

[Eon Man <eonicman@erols.com>]

Mario Becroft wrote:

> On a related topic:
> 
> What about a TOS emulator for Linux 68K or NetBSD. Could the VDI and AES
> be implemented so that they fit in with X, so that a window opened by a
> GEM application will become a window under X and so on (rather than having
> a single window in which the whole TOS screen is visible). This way GEM
> apps could be used under X just like X apps, without a discernable
> difference to the user. Unlike other emulators, there would not be a
> significant loss of speed this way since the CPU is not being emulated.
> I'm not familiar with X, so I don't know whether my suggestion is at all
> sensible. Perhaps someone else can comment on this?

This is actually the case with the oSIS project. NoCrew has been implementing
the necessary aspects of GEM so that it may be run on Linux m68k machines
(Atari TT030, Falcon030, Amigas, and Clones).  However, it is necessary to
maintain both projects, thus Atarians that can't run X sensibly (be it low
memory or having 68000 processor) will still have MiNT/FeniX running FreeAES
and W-Windows while '030+ machines will also have the option of chosing oSIS
ontop of Linux.  Thus all Motorola class machines will be able to run GEM. 
The only question with Mac68k is whether or not MacMiNT will be revived. 
Perhaps MacLinux 68k will be stablized by that time.

Peter