[B2-devel] Mac OS X status

[<ni...@in...>]

> Nigel, could you please tell us the status of Basilisk for MacOS X ? Now
> that I installed MacOS X on my Titanium, I would like to have some
> applications to play with ;-)

1) A Ti PowerBook _and_ OS X?   You lucky, lucky bastard!
   I am not sure that you deserve any more toys to play with :-)

2) I was waiting for the Final of OS X to be released, so that I
   could check that none of the APIs changed before I submitted
   code into the CVS repository. I just got my copy of OS X today,
   so it will be "published" soon.

   Until then, I will e-mail you a tarball containing the source
   and a compiled app
   
3) Status:

   * Code was developed on the Public Beta, using the IDE
     (Project Builder), Objective C and Cocoa classes.

   * The Beta didn't support the floppy drive on my laptop, so there
     if no floppy support in B2 yet

   * I didn't implement audio or ethernet either. Now that the APIs
     are set in stone, I (or someone else) should be able to
     implement this code pretty quickly

   * I tried to give Basilisk II the ability to have multiple
     emulations in one session, but the uae stuff didn't seem to
     be re-entrant. So, multiple windows can be created, but only
     one of them can be started

   * I never did get a working uae reset function

   * Main window GUI stuff is all there, though window size is
     currently fixed to Classic size (512x342)

   * Preferences editing GUI stuff is all there, but the code that
     will change the in-memory copy of the preferences is only about
     25% complete, and I haven't figured out when/how to write it
     back to disk

   * I created a nice icon (like Apple's Classic emulator app.,
     but with a 6 and 7 instead of 9), but PhotoShop 3 doesn't
     support transparency, so it is a big white box with a nice
     icon in the middle of it :-(

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