mghughes@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 project because people were interested in bridging the gap to running x86 code via emulation...
For the record... I am not looking to run another full out emulation. The best example of what I have in mind is what Apple did when they moved their processor base from 68K to PPC. And I am wondering if the same could be done for Wine. By the looks of things some of the framework to make that happen are already there in the form of thunk code... Apple used what they called trampolines iirc.
The question is: Were there any programs written for WindowsNT for the PPC? I don't know of any, off hand.
The real problem is that most, if not all, Windows based programs were written for the X86 platform. The makes the use of a CPU emulator necessary. I know of only on FOSS project that is working on this, and that is the Qemu (?) project. The Darwine project was trying to combine the PPC->X86 emulator with Wine. Again, this project has stopped progress and probably needs help getting restarted. The Darwine project does exist on SourceForge and could be revived with someone displaying interest in getting it running again. I do have PPC Mac here, but I think I messed up the power port on it and thus batteries are not fully charging. I stopped working on another FOSS project because running the test suite takes over a day and I could not trust the power supply to last that long.
James McKenzie