Yearly update
Posted by moggen on July 14, 2009
Time for the yearly update of the blog. It seems like I’m not the blogging type of person.
But here is an update.
I just came home from a vacation in California. 3 weeks visiting San Francisco and Los Angeles. It was really nice.
The emulation project is still active but has undergone some changes. I started to build an adapter for AROS as a side project. This adapter will keep track of system data structures and convert system calls in the emulation to direct AROS system calls. So far I can get a small “Hello World” program running. If all goes well I will consider merging it with the older simulation code to one code base.
A similar project is in development right now by o1i. It is based on the UAE emulation core and is modified to interact with AROS. More about this in o1i’s blog. The main drawback with this emulation is that it is still UAE and will need a real proprietary Amiga ROM image. At least until M68k native AROS can replace the original ROMs, but that seems far away. The best thing about this integration with UAE is that old hardware-banging demos and games will continue to work. That will never work in my adapter.
