[News] Screenshots of Morphos/Ambient | ANN.lu |
Posted on 14-Sep-2002 16:48 GMT by Robert Johansson | 117 comments View flat View list |
Our all-time favourite Gunne Steen from GGS-Data, Sweden, has taken some screenshots of Ambient/Morphos running on Pegasos.
See them here
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Posted by Casey R Williams on 16-Sep-2002 08:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 74 (Anonymous): >>sorry, I meant 68k emulation. Basically, what can MorphOS run with out the 68k emulation and AmigaOS API? What I want to know is with out this ability to run old Amiga programs, what is MorphOS? what can it run?
Hrrmm... Let's see if I've got this straight. MorphOS doesn't have an AmigaOS API, rather its own API is an AmigaOS-like API. So if an Amiga app calls this API, it will work as if it were running on an Amiga, and will use emulation to handle the 68k functions. But only with Amiga apps, as MorphOS is PPC native its own apps do not need emulation. Functions not present in AmigaOS will not be called by the Amiga apps, so they could add practically anything they want to their OS and still be able to run Amiga apps just as well. Think of it as like running a 1.x app on a 3.x Amiga.
>>Also, I assume MorphOS is a meaningful name, will there be other API layers like the Amiga one available? Say a Mac API layer or Linux or BSD...
I suppose the Quark kernel could be the basis of other environments, but the MorphOS API was only designed to run Amiga (and MOS) apps AFAIK. |
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