Posted by MartinG on September 17, 2003 at 17:54:02:
In Reply to: Re: Move UAE and Winuae to sourceforge.net??? posted by Forefather on September 17, 2003 at 14:24:28:
: start with porting the new "mini" version of WinUAE to GCC.
Do you know where there is more information about this "mini version"
I can't find anything on the website.
Anyway, my plan was basically:
1) Take a copy of UAE 0.2.2 and do a few minor tidy ups. (change to a recent autoconf and get compile fixed in for recent gcc 3.x)
2) Dump all the display and audio back ends except for SDL. (I _believe_ this will make further optimisation of the core code easier if I can assume SDL instead of remaining "portable" in this area)
3) Move the GUI to GTK 2 and rework it to be more intuitive, I need to look at the winUAE one 'cos I haven't seen it, but I don't like the way the UAE one is now. It will probably display in one window with the UAE display and menus on by default, with a toggle fullscreen button or something. (I need to look embedding sdl displays inside gtk windows)
4) Add fixes and improvements to the emulation code from WinUAE
5) Once working, cross comilation to windows should not be too hard because of SDL and GTK2.
6) Add other patches (_maybe_ JIT, but who knows) and continue development.
I prefer this approach to starting from WinUAE for a few reasons:
a) I can do it in small incremental steps.
b) My feeling is that UAE is more portably written than WinUAE.
c) I want a GTK2 gui so it will work in win32 and *nix and UAE already has a good starting point for that.