[Info-vax] New free Alpha emulator - AlphaVM-free

[John Wallace]

On May 7, 9:05 pm, Freedom on the Oceans <alex.bu... at munted.org.uk>
wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 15:33 +0000, VAXm... at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > In article <4dc562a3$0$81474$e4fe5... at news.xs4all.nl>, MG
> > <marcog... at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> > >On 6-5-2011 22:04, artem wrote:
> > >> Just releaseed a new version 1.0.3. Main changes are:
> > >> - bug fixes
> > >> - added support of Windows XP (it was win7, no linux yet, sorry)
> > >> - added support of DS10 abd ES40 systems (it was DS20).
>
> > >> Please checkhttp://emuvm.com.
>
> > >This is definitely one of the best AXP emulators yet!  I'm very
> > >grateful, thank you very much.
>
> > It'll never be any good as long as it only runs on WEENDOZE.
>
> It's very hard to port between different architectures, especially on
> GUIs. He can look at a rewrite with a cross-platform GUI kit, it would
> make his life a lot easier.
> --
> Tactical Nuclear Kittens

"It's very hard to port between different architectures"

It can be much much harder if you don't start with that in mind, e.g.
if for some reason the Wintel mentality has taken hold and Win32
or .NET or whatever are built in.

A platform-independent GUI is nice for something that needs to look
shiny and modern but in something like an Alpha emulator it may be
that a platform-independent OS interface layer is equally important.
If any kernel mode code is involved, platform indepence doesn't really
exist, although an application specific subset for a given application
may exist.