Arnold,
I would think an emulator would be a huge undertaking as well and your
point about binary-only comercial apps is well taken. A crosscompiler's power
would in the hands of the software developers (or whoever has the sourse
code) who may not use it to convert it to Newton softwere at all anyway.
Whereas an emulator allows the user to pick what software he would like to
use.
I've just never zippy performance with the use of an emulator.
but for the good of all NewtonKind and for my own selfish reasons good luck
to all involved in this project.
I greedily yern for it's success
RobertRuff
In a message dated 3/12/00 11:50:25 AM, arnold@dstc.edu.au writes:
<< a cross-compiler would not enable the use of binary-only, commercial
apps.
i've never looked in detail at the palm-os development system. isn't
it based on code warrior? writing a bunch of Newton C++ to replace
their system libs, and a smart loader, would hopefully mean that you
could minimise the amount of CPU time spent emulating m68k
instructions.
or maybe you could run their binary apps through a converter, like the
Digital FX/32 (or whatever it was called. something like that) which
converts x86 binaries to Alpha binaries?
but really, this is a huge undertaking ...
>>
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