Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-29 Thread mghughes
On May 28, 2009, at 01:49 AM, Ben Klein wrote: So you also know you can't run x86 apps on PPC platforms without emulation, just like you can't run z80 code on x86 without emulation. Also, where is this PPC code in Wine exactly? What source file exactly? Files containing PPC specific related

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-27 Thread James McKenzie
mghug...@embarqmail.com wrote: No No No People... Please read the messages before replying. I know the difference betweeen my 6502, 6800, Z80, 68k, x86, 7400. I know Wine is focused on running MSWindows based software on x86 processors. I also know there exists PowerPC code in the wine

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-27 Thread Saulius Krasuckas
* On Tue, 26 May 2009, mghug...@embarqmail.com wrote: Download link did not work... Would have been good to look at/try/experiment with, but not what I am looking/aiming for. You could probably want to google for Programmer's File Editor v0.07.001 (file pfe0701p.zip), for example this

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-27 Thread Gert van den Berg
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:00, James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote: The question is:  Were there any programs written for WindowsNT for the PPC?  I don't know of any, off hand. A few seem to exist... Probably nothing without a x86 versions though. Compatibility with PowerPC NT

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-27 Thread Ben Klein
Please bottom-post on wine mailing lists. 2009/5/26 mghug...@embarqmail.com: No No No People...  Please read the messages before replying. I know the difference betweeen my 6502, 6800, Z80, 68k, x86, 7400.  I know Wine is focused on running MSWindows based software on x86 processors.  I

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-26 Thread mghughes
No No No People... Please read the messages before replying. I know the difference betweeen my 6502, 6800, Z80, 68k, x86, 7400. I know Wine is focused on running MSWindows based software on x86 processors. I also know there exists PowerPC code in the wine project because people were

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-26 Thread Michael G Hughes
Yes and no... I'll state that PPC processors have instructions to deal with endianness like: lhbrx/sthbrx Load/Store half word (16-bits) byte reversed indexed lwbrx/stwbrx Load/Store word (32-bit) byte reversed indexed Michael On Mon, 25 May 2009 16:06:03 -0400, Stefan Dösinger

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-26 Thread mghughes
Download link did not work... Would have been good to look at/try/experiment with, but not what I am looking/aiming for. On May 25, 2009, at 03:52 PM, Gert van den Berg wrote: Just a random question: Any chance that PowerPC Windows apps might work on a PPC Wine build? A PowerPC port of

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-26 Thread Detlef Riekenberg
On Mo, 2009-05-25 at 22:06 +0200, Stefan Dösinger wrote: they won't work because WinPPC uses little endian while MacOS uses big endian. I am wondering how that would be possible though, can PPCs switch modes? Yes, a PowerPC can switch endian. -- By by ... Detlef

PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-25 Thread Michael G Hughes
I have managed to get Wine compiling on a PowerMac G4, MacOSX 10.3.9, a while back... What I know so far... It does not work... Who'd a thunk it? Just trying to run winecfg gives me: fixme:seh:RTLCaptureContext not implimented on PowerPC fixme:seh:call_stack_handlers not implemented on

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-25 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 00:49:55 schrieb Michael G Hughes: I have managed to get Wine compiling on a PowerMac G4, MacOSX 10.3.9, a while back... What I know so far... It does not work... Who'd a thunk it? Just trying to run winecfg gives me: fixme:seh:RTLCaptureContext not implimented on

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-25 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
He might be wanting to use winelib and that should work. People used it in the past. Roderick On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesin...@gmx.at wrote: Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 00:49:55 schrieb Michael G Hughes: I have managed to get Wine compiling on a PowerMac G4, MacOSX

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-25 Thread Austin English
On 5/25/09, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbir...@gmail.com wrote: He might be wanting to use winelib and that should work. People used it in the past. I tried it around December, and a lot of things were broken/missing. I filed several bugs: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16694

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-25 Thread Gert van den Berg
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 13:44, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesin...@gmx.at wrote: The main trouble is that Windows apps are x86, so in order to run anything but builtin notepad you'll need a CPU emulator. In that case, just compile wine as x86 binary and run it in the emulator as well. Just a

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-25 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 21:52:53 schrieb Gert van den Berg: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 13:44, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesin...@gmx.at wrote: The main trouble is that Windows apps are x86, so in order to run anything but builtin notepad you'll need a CPU emulator. In that case, just compile

Re: PowerPC MacOSX work...

2009-05-25 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 20:33:28 schrieb mghug...@embarqmail.com: No No No People... Please read the messages before replying. I did, but they were not clear to me. To be honest, I am still not sure what you want to achieve. For the record... I am not looking to run another full out