Sounds like what Aros is trying to do with Amiga, by building an emulator into their reimplementation of the AmigaOS 3.x APIs.
On 20 November 2015 at 06:10, Dr Tomaž Slivnik <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Anyone know if Lotus Improv would run/work on GNUStep? > >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Gregory Casamento > > GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant > > http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > > http://ind.ie/phoenix/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >
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