Re: Lotus Improv

On 20 November 2015 at 06:10, Dr Tomaž Slivnik <slivnik@tomaz.name> wrote:

At least in theory it seems to me that e M680x0 emulator could be written, with libraries implementing the 680x0 NeXTSTEP 3.x frameworks being replaced with a translation layer which could be run in native code, implementing the NeXTstep frameworks on top of GnuStep. FreeBSD, at least, also provides a mechanism for installing handlers to support new binary format types.

Then you could run all the NeXTSTEP apps intermingled with GnuStep native apps.

I don't know just how hard this would be to do in practice, and what the biggest obstacle would be (mapping 680x0 Display Postscript calls to GnuStep primitives? I'm just guessing, I have no idea), but maybe it could be a fun project for someone looking for something interesting to do.

On 19 Nov 2015, at 18:30, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> It won't. Lotus Improv was written using NeXTSTEP3.x. The
> frameworks changed a lot between that and OpenStep. It wouldn't work
> without a significant porting effort even if we could get the source.
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Adam S <adam.sommerfield@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know if Lotus Improv would run/work on GNUStep?
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
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From:	James Carthew
Subject:	Re: Lotus Improv
Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:01:24 +1100