On Jun 15, 2020, at 12:21 AM, Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, Josh Juran wrote:
As my most recent participation was co-developing Penguin, I probably
don't need to be an admin. :-)
If your sourceforge account is still a going concern I'll leave the commit
bit as-is -- I'd hate to discourage possible future contributions!
Very well, I just changed the password and replaced the SSH keys. I didn't enable external email, though.
I'd also be interested in any hearing about efforts to virtualize Mac OS
or Mac applications on Linux/m68k, as I might be able to assist with
those.
I don't know of any MacOS virtualization efforts (kvm for linux-m68k?)
I've made a small first step -- my emulator runs Mac applications in User mode.
Personally, I'd love to see EMILE ported to MacRelix, as a replacement for
Penguin.
Okay, /that/ I wasn't expecting. :-)
Though now that I think about it, I can see the appeal. The booter itself becomes a command-line-only program, whose resource fork can be empty. You even get a rudimentary shell, a couple of scripting languages, and some filesystem-bound GUI primitives.
And while MacRelix may be bloated by 1990 standards, you're not trying to boot Linux on a 4 MiB machine.[1] (Plus, whatever RAM it uses you get back after booting Linux.)
Reason being, there are several Penguin bugs that result in boot
crashes and some other bugs besides.
I got my start here fixing general Mac programming bugs in Penguin, and if any have crept back in I can certainly take a look. I've also got a solid background in 68K machine-level programming now.
Almost all have workarounds, but you
have to read the docs to find out about them (and go out of your way to
apply them).
Is Penguin still built with a non-free compiler in a non-free OS? A port to Retro68 might help make it more maintainable.
Josh
[1] ... I hope. :-)
