VmwAROS to support 68K applications

[tonyyeb]

Thanks. As I've said before, AmiBridge's goal is not to integrate 68K code support, but to build a bridge from AROS to AmigaOS. You know how bridges work: it allows people to reach the other side of the river, but not as easy as if the river wouldn't be there. Take this as a workaround until better/newer applications will be created/ported on AROS.

Yes I realise that. What I meant is it may spur on development to real 68k integration.

[Hammer]

Nice...

[paolone]

How that bridge is different from WinUAE running on XP? I mean, there you can start your favourite game by clicking a sortcut on your desktop. UAE launcher for AROS is not (yet) much...

There is only a practical difference. Scripts you're talking about generally launch UAE with a customized configuration file, in order to create the right emulation environment for that game. We can call this a sort of "ADF-oriented" script.

AmiBridge goes little further, modifying the S: files in the emulation environment. So I prefer to call it an "application-oriented" script. Maybe future revisions will allow to create different uaerc.config files for ADFs, but writing another GUI for e-uae was not my primary goal.

[paolone]

Yes I realise that. What I meant is it may spur on development to real 68k integration

That's something I hope too. Lack of support to 68K apps is probably the heaviest wall that prevents Amigans to look at AROS as a viable platform. I believe AmiBridge won't destroy that wall, but at least it will give it two huge slams.  ;-)

[tonyyeb]

@Paolone

Good luck with further development. I hope AROS will start to pick more pace in this area. I agree that 68k is a massive gap for AROS. It really needs this for Amiga users to start to look at it with any seriousness.