Re: [B2-devel] Intel emulator dies when emulating 68040?

[Bassie <jea...@te...>]

thank you for your quick reply ! yes out here (bookprinting company)
we=92ve been using basilisk II for ages already ! because we need to =
load
daily PS-fonts with hp-util to a printer for use with an amos
(alpha-microsystem) ! We=92 ve not ever experienced any problem at all
with the basilisk ethernet-driver at all ! I=92ve tried out even with =
fake
mac-adress and everything keeps working perfectly ! But no luck with SS
at all, when I use lan-connection, basilisk II driver , the apple logo
appears and vanishes immediately ! when i use slirp networking, SS does
boot but euh no networking at all with all settings possible tried !
(and belief me I really tried every possible setting, as I play sort of
networkadmin. here at work !) The only way SS can be used in our network
would be a working version with basilisk II driver !
Naturally, I appreciate the focus on the macosx platform, just a real
pitty for us here as we are stuck with windows and it would be fantastic
to use SS in stead of basilisk, as we are in a framemaker flow too here
!
Thx again !

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: bas...@li...
[mailto:bas...@li...] Namens Gwenole
Beauchesne
Verzonden: dinsdag 23 januari 2007 23:49
Aan: Bassie
CC: 'Discussions related to the development of Basilisk II'
Onderwerp: Re: [B2-devel] Intel emulator dies when emulating 68040?


Le mardi, 23 jan 2007, =E0 11:15 Europe/Paris, Bassie a =E9crit :

> people there start thinking that Sheepshaver isn't
> worked on by its developper anymore

Well, my plans for SheepShaver reduced as other projects went on and/or=20
resurrected. As of today, I would like to focus on:

- Better integration on the MacOS X platform: add the new GUI and=20
possibly drop SDL support in favor of native audio (from B2) and OpenGL=20
graphics. The latter doesn't mean 3D acceleration but use of e.g.=20
GL_UNPACK_CLIENT_STORAGE_APPLE and other OSX specifics to improve=20
graphics performance.

- Add a native_powerpc_cpu emulator for PowerPC platforms: i.e. an=20
alternative method to reach near-native performance on ppc instead of=20
using direct execution of ppc code (and its problems). This will bring=20
support for ppc64 host platforms + reoptimization for Cell (and whatnot=20
splitting instructions to avoid microcoded instructions).

The JIT rewrite is retargetted to another project.

> Yeah I know that in linux or osx platform the difficulties are
> bypassed by slirp settings !

slirp mode also works on Windows.

> And of course most of us are poor windows users with very little
> knowledge !

Well, I am not a windows developer and I have very little knowledge in=20
that field.

> If just you could find a way for us to use the basilisk-ethernet
> driver for windows
> without SS exiting or crashing !

Do you mean that the B2-ether driver works fine with Basilisk II but=20
not with SheepShaver? One difficulty of the Windows port is that this=20
platform doesn't support mappings of the first segment (64K at address=20
0). Hence a few hacks are used to keep the adress space consistent but=20
the behaviour of Windows is unpredictable and might trash the mappings=20
we had. And the initial ethernet code relied on a V=3DP mapping, not=20
V=3DP+offset (where P=3DHost(Windows) VA, V=3DGuest(MacOS) VA, =
VA=3Dvirtual=20
address). I tried to fix but it's probably not perfect yet.

Can you check whether slirp works without crashing on your platform?

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