[NTLK] Developer news...

[Matthias Melcher]

> On Mar 6, 2020, at 05:03, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> wrote:
> 
> It could also be me... I built the Einstein.rex myself about two years ago and had to modify the Makefile a bit to get it to work on Linux cleanly.  Also, I extracted the MPW tools from the HFS disk image instead of the Stuffit file, and wrote a shell script to automate all of that. So I believe I have the necessary patience :D
> 
> Perhaps it's time to re-pack the NewtDevel files into a more modern archive format. A DMG for OS X would make sense I guess?
> 
> -V

That's a greta idea. I will exten mosrun in the next days to readily compile any of the relevant tools as native tools. Creating a developer image for Mac, Linux, and MSWindows would be fantastic.

Next on my list is taking newt/0 and rebuilding it pretty much from scratch into newt/64. I plan to implement a new in-memory format that is not only compatible with 64 bit, but also very fast. Any exiting package or streaming file format can still be read, but also a new faster format can be written. 

This should make it possible to relaunch DyneTK as a full and better replacement of NTK. I want DyneTK to read anything from assembler, C, C++, NewtonScript, Resources and NTK projects and generate Packages or Rex's or whatever else we can come up with.

Lastly, we can make newt/64 install and run any existing .pkg by adding code to implement the entire Newton experience piece by piece by rewriting what's in the ROM to run natively under any modern OS.

In the end, that would make NewtonOS blazingly fast on any platform or device. We would have internet access, and as much RAM and storage as we want. No 4MB limits, not even a 2GB or 4GB limit. 

Ambitious, I know. Who's in?

 - Matthias