Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!labtam!eyrie!phoenix!billy From: billy@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Jeff Coleman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: Emulator Mechanics (sorry long post) Message-ID: <1991Mar17.015758.19119@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> Date: 17 Mar 91 01:57:58 GMT References: <4992@mindlink.UUCP> Organization: Phoenix ComSystem. Public UNIX Melbourne Australia. Lines: 25 In stevek@amiglynx.UUCP (Steve K) writes: >why is everyone talking about IBM? Why not Macintosh programs? Though I am >not anyting close to a professional programmer, I'd imagine programs that run >off different computers with the same processor would share some op-codes, >right? Even if that is not true, they do both have similar GUIs, windows, >gadgets, and menu bars, ect. which shold make the translation easier and more >like the original. I sincerly hope someone will pick up and persue these >ideas, it would be very benificial for me and others - I'd love to run a nice >pascal compiler like Turbo Pascal, and an excellent ANSI editor like TheDraw! >- Steve Krulewitz - Fair Lawn, NJ - granted that the mac and amy both run on 68k bases wouldn't there be a major problem with the fact that the mac rom contains a lot of the definitions for gui's etc and therefore even if u could re-engineer the code u would still need to support the calls to the rom..which i IMAGINE is why readysoft have to use the roms for their amax package. jeff. <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------> Jeff Coleman billy@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au ..!uunet!munnari.oz!phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au!billy <----------------------------------------------------------------------------->