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From: | Eagle |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] A dream of mine: the ability to run m68k NeXT applications |
Date: | Tue, 19 May 2009 16:26:59 -0400 |
On May 19, 2009, at 16:18, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Eagle wrote:Greetings, all. I have a dream. Well, several actually, but two that are applicable here. The first is: I am interested in having the ability to run m68k NeXT applications. There are potentially several ways to do this, but two come to mind:1- a CPU-only emulator that runs on i386 NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, similar towhat Apple used during the transition from m68k to PPC. 2- a full-blown NeXT hardware emulator. I am interested in this because I have some m68k-only NeXT applications that I want to be able to run.CPU emulation is quite easy. The bits which are hard work are system call translation and hardware emulation, unfortunately at least one is required to run apps for a different OS :-)
What I have is some m68k binaries for the black-hardware version of NeXTSTEP. They'll run in the m68k version of either NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP. Unfortunately all I have to run them on (realistically speaking, that is - I still own some NeXTs) is the x86 versions of NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.
<sarcasm>So, it's not as simple as emulating the CPU huh?</sarcasm> :)I don't know how hard it is to do what I'm asking. Clearly the CPU needs to be emulated, which has obviously been done a million times before. I just don't know what else is involved, and I thought the QEMU team might be my best bet at finding an answer. I'm hoping beyond hope that someone here will have the knowledge and the desire to undertake a task such as this. :D
Thanks.
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