On 28 May 2008, at 21:49, matthiasm wrote: > I had one of the first machines available (damn early adopting has > cost me a fortune).
Oh yes, I hear that alright.... >> 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. Really! Might check that out - it never occurred to me to look - Apple just don't give that stuff away, usually. > >> 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. I was kind of thinking more wine-like. So not re-writing the ROM from scratch, but implementing the API as far as possible for the native system, that kind of thing. > >> 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 ;-). Indeed. And that even keeps this thread on-topic! Cheers, -- Ian _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
