Amiga emulator development

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On the other hand... if I talk to Matt.. AROS may well be viable

Talk away :-)

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JoNty wrote:
Why don't you do something useful, and code a classic Amiga emulator for AmigaOS 3/4.

And how is an emulator for AROS less usefull than an Emulator for AmigaOS3/4?
(Or maybe you don't understand the part about how AROS is source compatible with AmigaOS and thus any AROS program can be ported to AmigaOS with little or no code changes. The only thing aROS allows that AmigaOS does not, is more powerful hardware.)


some people, eh?  :-P

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I'd be pleased to see transparent emulation in AROS. In the past from what I remember, it had been said that they had no intention of doing any sort of emulation, but I think it would be a useful thing if it could be done.

The real problem was that no one had the motivation to do it, it could be tricky and will require quite a bit of work.

If John wants to give it a go, that's excellent!!! He will get the full support of the AROS team including testing and bug fixes.  :-)

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Gaidheal wrote:
Right on Matt :¬)

Yes folks, on the dev-list now for AROS, expect reasonably regular updates on any progress.  Remember, as it stands it's just me and I cannot possibly go "full time" on this.  NT5 fans, don't fret, that aspect will not in any way suffer as a result of this new goal.  The same routines that will (hopefully!) form the basis for AROS's emulation will also form the basis of the free NT5 Amiga emulator I planned  :¬)

PPC... still thinking about it.. here is the situation, as I understand it;  AROS lacks PPC support because despite high demand, noone is coming forward to develop AROS for PPC.  Equally, I have never targetted PPC myself and will therefore not be doing so in a hurry for a free emulator.  Now.. I have received messages about it, which indicates DEMAND... so if you are out there as a PPC developer and want to help me out with that aspect, it might well happen.  Failing that, it will only happen, probably, as an "upgrade" of sorts to an otherwise working emulator.

John

Michal Shultz has now got AROS to Boot on the PPC, but it will be a while before it's ready for public consumption... One would hopr that your Emulator in C would run on the PPC too :-)