[NTLK] Einstein and Xcode 4

[Matthias Melcher]

On 05.09.2012, at 18:09, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Matthias Melcher <mm at matthiasm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This drives me nuts!
>> 
>> I just had the one Eureka moment I was waiting for: how to move Einstein from being an Emulator (slow, interpreting the ROM, inflexible) piece by piece to become a simulator (running native code at full speed, rebuilding the OS, being copyright free).
>> 
>> And then this: using the newest version of Xcode, Einstein barely compiles, and if it does, it will not run beyond the boot sound anymore. WTF? It's Apples idiotic pressure on developers to always use the newest API, so our apps become incompatible to older hardware.
>> 
>> Anyway, end of rambling, start of question: can anyone help me to get Einstein back to life using Xcode 4.4.1? If so, I would love to implement Fibers to acheive the jump to simulation.
> 
> I fired up Xcode 4 a month or two ago to mess with NEWT/0 some more
> and had a horrendous time getting it to do what I wanted/expected. I
> never did find a way to get it to install the binary like I used to
> do. It seems like a big change from previous versions, but I probably
> haven't used it much since 2003 or 2004.
> 
> That said, the main issue I ran into was it was trying to build a
> 64-bit version, but NEWT/0 (in my case) is 32-bit only. Does Einstein
> still use NEWT/0 for Relativity? If so, I'd double check the platform.
> Also, the older Mac OS X SDKs are available, but they're an additional
> install (from within Xcode, at this point) so you may need to grab
> those.

Lots changed since NEWT/0 was written. The change from PowerPC to Intel (byte order!), then from 32 to 64 bit are the biggest issued

> This is probably all stuff you checked already. Is there a specific
> error/failure you're seeing?

It took me quite some fumbling to get a 32 bit version compiled and running. It launches, but there are some unexpected graphics at the bottom of the screen. Then NewtonOS launches and plays the sound, but the screen stays black. It even goes into sleep mode after a while. MOre testing required.