[GEM Development] Weird idea...

[Owen Rudge]

> I've thought about it, but it never got off the ground, I thought of 
> making use of the running DOS and GEM to make a high-level Atari ST 
> emulator.  ("CrySTal" would be a good name for it!)

Such ideas have been posted to the list a number of times over the past few 
years... sadly, nobody has been able to come up with any code as of yet. 
Considering you'd have to emulate the Motorola 68K processor, it's not too 
easy a task (a number of 68K emulators do exist, though), but it wouldn't be 
impossible. Apple emulates the 68K processor in their PowerPC Mac OS and has 
applications run seemingly natively under that, and they've done it again 
for PowerPC OS X apps in Intel OS X. I'm sure more discussion was had on the 
technicalities of this in the past, but I can't remember the specifics. If 
someone's up to the task, anyway, feel free to try. ;-)

-- 
Owen Rudge
http://www.owenrudge.net/