Re: [new] emulators/minivmac

forgot to attach the tarball

On 7/2/24 6:57 AM, Jag Talon wrote:
> amazing thank you for testing! i'm glad that it works well on powerpc.
> does it run at acceptable speeds?
>
> i updated the port to reflect your recommendations thank you!
>
> i also took this opportunity to create a minivmac desktop entry so that
> users can select it in the menu and simply drag-and-drop the ROM and the
> dsk.
>
> let me know what you think!
>
> On 7/2/24 12:20 AM, George Koehler wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:34:33 -0400
>> Jag Talon <jag@aangat.lahat.computer> wrote:
>>
>>> successfully got it to build on powerpc by enabling the -cpu option in
>>> the Makefile. unfortunately i'm not able to test it out because i'm not
>>> able to run any graphics on it so i'd appreciate anyone who has a
>>> powerpc to try it out! :)
>>
>> Hi, your port of minivmac works on my powerpc.
>>
>> You might want ${V} in SITES = .../minivmac-${V}/
>>
>> portcheck(1) found 2 issues with your port.
>>
>> 1. There are $OpenBSD$ lines in patches/. You can delete them,
>> we stopped putting $OpenBSD$ in ports.
>> 2. The port Makefile has a long line, more than 80 characters.
>>
>> You can use backslash \ in make(1) to continue long lines. I would
>> also use && to tell sh(1) to stop if a command fails, like
>>
>> do-gen:
>> cd ${WRKSRC} && \
>> cc setup/tool.c -o setup_t && \
>> ./setup_t -t ${SETUP_TARGET} -cpu ${SETUP_CPU} > gen && \
>> sh ./gen
>>
>> Might not need "chmod" before "sh ./gen".
>>
>> make(1) can expand ${MACHINE_ARCH} in variable names; you might be
>> able to simplify the arch logic like
>>
>> SETUP_FLAGS-amd64 = -t ob64
>> SETUP_FLAGS-i386 = -t obsd
>> SETUP_FLAGS-powerpc = -t obsd -cpu ppc
>>
>> and run "./setup_t ${SETUP_FLAGS-${MACHINE_ARCH}}". If someone wants
>> to add another arch, a -cpu list is in
>> https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/develop.html
>>
>> This port ignores CFLAGS and uses cc -Os. I would not change this;
>> patching -Os to CFLAGS looks too difficult.
>>
>> My powerpc is a Mac PowerBook G4 from 2004, which is now emulating a
>> Mac Plus from 1986. I spent a few hours on my amd64 to learn minivmac
>> and prepare some disk images. (My amd64 has Firefox, which can run
>> another Mac emulator, Infinite Mac. I used Mac OS 7.6 in Infinite Mac
>> to extract 2 .sea.bin files and to convert 1 archive from StuffIt
>> .sit to Compact Pro .cpt; the old StuffIt Expander 4.0.1 in my
>> minivmac can't read newer .sit but can read .cpt.) I then copied a
>> Mac game (disk1.dsk + vMac.ROM) to my powerpc. I used thunar on
>> amd64 and PathFinder (pkg_add fox) on powerpc to drag files into
>> minivmac. I used unzip (pkg_add unzip) for .zip files.
>>
>> --gkoehler
>>
>

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