Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire

[Lonny Pursell <atari@bright.net>]

on 4/29/09 6:24 PM, Henk Robbers wrote:

> The road ahead:
> 
> 1 Compile and run EmuTOS. As a proof of concept.
> 2 Implement CF machine option in TT-Digger. I'll need that :-)
> 3 Implement 68020/CF compatibility target in AHCC.
> 4 Recompile and run EmuTOS.
> 5 Implement CF specific target in AHCC.
> 6 Rewrite in C the VDI_BLIT & VDI_TBLIT functions of EmuTOS.
> 7 Hopefully at this time the ACP board exists. :-)
> 8 Recompile and run EmuTOS.
> 9 Recompile AHCC and run it on the ACP board.
> 
> 10 Be happy to have lived through all of this.
> 
> At the moment I am quite busy doing stage 1.
> 
> I regret the fact that ColdFire and M68K have too many differences.
> Yet the basic programming model is the same. That is why the CF is the
> best choice for people who like real hardware. (like me).
> 
> The modifications needed in a compiler are tedious, but straight
> forward and uncomplicated.
> 
> I expect the ACP board to be 10 times faster then my 25MHz Milan 040.
> EmuTos compiles in 160 seconds now. So that would become 16 seconds.
> At larger speeds AHCC would become console typewriter limited. ;-)

#2 sounds interesting to me, since it was TT-Digger that I used to generate
all 300+ *.s files that make up GFA.  ;-)  Still use it a lot to check
compiler output.

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