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Re: Which OS Would Be The Best Amiga Way Forward...
« on: May 24, 2011, 10:13:20 AM »
Remember, AROS is two main things.

AROS x86 (where Emumiga could help people run m68k Amiga HUNK binaries.)
AROS m68k, which aims for 100 % 3.1 compatibility on Commodore Amiga machines. They even have tentative plans for supporting 1.x stuff which does not work on 3.x ...
 

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Re: Which OS Would Be The Best Amiga Way Forward...
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 04:59:23 PM »
About Emumiga. From now on, read "x86" as "host". (Emumiga would work on ARM too for instance.)

Emumiga runs EVERYTHING except the program itself in an x86 context. Every loaded library is an x86 library. It works by a pretty deep and convoluted set of "layers" of memory mappings, which it uses to keep track of pointers within structs within pointers.

Moggen is one of the very few coders I know which could implement something like this. This is actually research level stuff and he could write a paper about it.