Hmmm, it's that time of year again....
So I had a good idea for a flaming (I need it since it's cold in Pennsylvania now ;-) What about rewriting QDOS/SMS (or converting the assembly sources) in order to run NATIVELY on x86 processors. There are a number of nice tools available for that (like the PortAsm/68K by MicroAPL) that could completely translate the assembly sources to optimised native x86 assembly. Then all SBASIC programs would run directly and we could also have QPC (or some other emulator) to work as a 68K native binaries on-the-fly translator (kind of what Apple did with PowerPC Macs in order to run older 68K apps) and in the future we could develop our own x86 apps.... (and take advantage of all the x86 based peripherals etc...) Not to mention that the middle-man (Dos/Win 9x/NT) will be vanish.... Imagine the speed/power potential of such a solution... :-) Now start flaming :-) Phoebus
