App for OS4

[alx]

A port of UAE would be great, but you'd probably need more info on the OS4 API's.  And it'd be great if someone ported OpenOffice, Mozilla or Bochs.  If you could port the first two, I'd be able to trash my PeeCee for everything except for games. :-D

[alx]

Whats so special about a port of UAE ?

It'd be a disgrace if OS4 didn't have one :-)

I don't know how simple it would be to do a straight port, but what would be really great is basically the opposite of ^mithlon - throw out most stuff except for custom chip emulation, and then use it with the virtualised memory in OS4 for legacy compatibility.  But I'm guessing that there isn't any documentation about how to use the new memory features.

[alx]

Basically, from what I've heard, it would be possible to put in a background task (not hard-coded into the OS) that would read the "chip" memory and act on it.  Because the 68k emulation is not sandboxed, any older AGA programs would be able to utilise the new features of OS4.

But I'm not much of a programmer, and don't know how (if at all) it'd be done.  So no, I dont have "even the slightest idea how much work it would be to adapt UAE this way ".  If it would be really hard (and it sounds like it), then just forget it :-)