On 28.05.2008, at 15:36, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote: > >> http://code.google.com/p/dynee5 > > Oh, cool!
Yes, it's been fun so far ;-) > I always fancied a Newton, back in the day, but by the time I got > around > to it, Apple had stoped making them... I had one of the first machines available (damn early adopting has cost me a fortune). Back then, the SDK was 1000US$, far too much for me. Now the SDK (NTK) is free, but doesn't really work on a fast PC or not at all on OS X. Hence DyneTK. > Lack of a Newton ROM is a problem. The debugging images of the ROM come as pert of NTK. So if you find the NTK on Unna.org, you pretty much found the ROM file with all debugging symbols which loads right into Einstein, the emulator. > I wonder how hard it would be to rewite the entire Newton OS from > scratch... Einstein has pretty good support for replacing the JIT code with native C++ code to accelerate the ROM. If - in theory - we were able to rewrite all 8MB of the ROM, we would have just that. > OK, maybe not. No, better not. At least not by hand. A byte code compielr and interpreter however does exist and works pretty well. What's missing is the interface of the Newton GUI calls to FLTK widgets ;-). ---- http://robowerk.com/ _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
