Re: Lotus Improv

[Dr Tomaž Slivnik]

On 20 Nov 2015, at 02:17, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> It's amazing that I didn't know about this emulator. For years I thought the 
> only game in town for next emulation was mess. 

You can download the latest version here, the developer is Andreas Grabher:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44703754/Previous_1.3.zip

It's really remarkably feature-complete.

> What you're referring to wrt Rosetta is a dynamic recompiler. It would also 
> need a kernel plug-in to run to make it seem less in the sense that it would 
> start the recompiler whenever an executable of a given type of executable was 
> invoked. We have something like this called darling which is essentially a 
> Mach-o binary loader which used the GNUstep libraries to run Mac OS X 
> executables. The project shows much promise but is not ready for production 
> as of yet (Lubos correct me wherever you see fit). 

I think you could also just make an emulator, interpreting and executing 680x0 
instructions one at a time, the performance wouldn't be so great, but with the 
speed of modern hardware, I'm not sure it would necessarily be a problem.