[MiNT] 68k binary emulator

[Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Lately I've been working on a rather silly project which I thought I'd  
share with you. Basically it's a 68000 binary emulator, which launches  
an application in an emulated environment, but tunnels OS calls etc.  
to the host OS.

Why on earth would anyone want to do this? Well, today it's fairly  
pointless, but let's say someone ports the kernel to PPC, Arm or  
whatever. An emulator of this kind could then be used to provide some  
basic degree of compatibility with 68k applications.

Feel free to try it: http://hem.passagen.se/shoggoth/misc/emu68k.ttp

Usage:

./emu68k.ttp <binary.prg>

Compatibility is rather low at the momenty, but I think it can be  
improved a lot.

Successfully tested applications:
 - AtarICQ
 - AtarIRC
 - Atari Works
 - Truepaint
 - Kronos (although the image loading takes several minutes, and the  
OpenGL test fail)
 - SuJi
 - MyMail
 - Resource Master 2.11
 - aFTP
 - Hexedit
 - QeD (sluggish response in menues etc.)

Please note that this is more of a toy than a finished concept. Also  
note that running this on anything less on a 060 would be a (major)  
waste of time. My C-language skills are crap at best, so save  
important work etc. before you try it.

-- PeP