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| Posted on 19-Aug-2002 15:25 GMT by Álmos Rajnai | 68 comments
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Project Petunia (AmigaOS4 JIT emulator) pages updated and extended with a FAQ.
Project Petunia pages (the emulator, that will be used in AmigaOS4) updated and extended with a FAQ.
After a long period of checking forums, chatboards and answering e-mails I decided to add a FAQ part into the project page. I hope I can clean up all the important questions arising in you. If something is not clear enough feel free to write a mail.
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| Project Petunia FAQ : Comment 8 of 68 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 19-Aug-2002 17:26 GMT | In reply to Comment 7 (JoannaK):
JoannaK said,
>It's a pitty there have to be at least 3 different 68kJit emulators on the
>works at the same time. But hey.. we all can afford reinventation of wheel,
>delays, lack of coders etc.. No need to share with others, even when they are
>years ahead of you. :)
Well, it comes down to a difference of opinion. MOS sounds like it's going for the full-bore OS/2 solution (seperate VMs), while this "task-based" concept Petunia uses sounds suspiciously like the Win'95 approach. OS4 has always been positioned as the highly compatible route, so it makes some sense. (I'm not really sure how well I'm reading his description of the 'task-based' approach; it may be that he's saying this is a trick to achieve Win'9x-like compatibility while maintaining stability, or I could just be totally off on the way Win'9x handles its DOS boxes...)
I think I 'trust' the MOS approach more, personally, but since getting back in touch with oldschool games will be one of the few 'killer apps' for any "Amiga" platform at launch, I'm not going to mind too much. Unlike with DOS, there's actually 'Classic' software still worth running after you've moved to the 'modern' system. ;)
>I was honestly hoping they (Hyperion/Ainc) would use Bernies code to OS4 cause
>he have made this all once allready, and he's having working solution to most
>of issues... But apparently I was hoping too much.
Bernie's sounds as tuned to x86 as anything else out there on the UAE JIT front. It might take more effort to 'port' it than to simply write a new one for PPC. However, I gather that he's reimplemented some OS libraries to target x86, and that miiight mean some useful GCC cleanup/reimplementation work's been done there, if he wasn't handcoding assembler. |
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