68k AGA AROS + UAE => winner!

[that_punk_guy]

whoosh777 wrote:
68k AGA code can then be used as virtual machine code

Speculation on my part, since I'm no hardware/HAL guru, but no matter how fast you run the emulation, it's going to be held back by the architecture - addressing modes, registers, etc - that the emulated processor offers. And you can't change them, or you'll break compatibility.

Using AGA emulation in the way you describe is also... well, insane, quite frankly. Why toss the Amiga's established RTG system out of the window?

:-?

[that_punk_guy]

whoosh777 wrote:
The issue of 64 bit code, this can be done by extending the
68k Virtual CPU instruction set by inventing our own 64 bit instructions!

And at that point your code no longer runs natively even on the lowest common denominator machine: the 68k Amiga.

:-?

[that_punk_guy]

. . . . .  :python:

[that_punk_guy]

@whoosh777

Re: .tar.bz2 files.

If I recall correctly, TAR is not intended to compress the contents, it's a simple archiving format. The reason this is done is because you can only bzip individual files. It's a "Unix thing" indeed, but you can open then on Windows if you have WinRAR.

It's fully-functional shareware, not difficult to find. Try not to freak out too much.