[Freemint-list] Interesting github project / ressurection

[Mark Duckworth]

I know I'm weird but 3/4 of the fun for me is making the platform do
things it would have been thought impossible.  Hence the desire to run
netsurf, ct60, ctpci, firebee, etc.  Pushing the platform back towards
usability.  So I don't see this type of thing as a future direction so
much as an other path for playing and pushing the system.  It's not much
different when it comes down to it than Aranym.  Absolutely insane
performance and capabilities.

Thanks,
Mark


On 01/24/2017 09:57 AM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> Den 24.01.2017 13:53, skrev Vincent Rivière:
> 
>> IMHO, that concept is *the* ultimate thing to do. A system like Wine
>> which allows to transparently run TOS programs on a host OS, without 
>> the
>> burden of a full-blown hardware emulator. It is the way I would like to
>> run old Atari software nowadays (if any). Combined to a JIT CPU
>> emulator, it would provide ultimate speed. And full memory protection.
> 
> Personally I think this is a step in the wrong direction. There are very
> few TOS/GEM applications that are better than what we have on modern 
> platforms,
> so why would you want to use them under Windows or Linux? In the general 
> case
> this is a completely uninteresting solution. Technically interesting - 
> yes. And
> almost certainly a lot of fun to implement. But of very little use.
> 
> Let's face it, this platform has not been for "productive" use for many, 
> many
> years. It's about nostalgia. And most of that nostalgia is gone when you
> abstract away the platform itself.
>