Hi,
  I'd love a copy!

cheers

bruce

Marcel Weiher <marcel at metaobject.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> last week I managed to get a new, event-based VM up and running for  
> MacOS-X Public Beta.  It is based on Ian's 2.9pre Unix sources for  
> both the generated as well as the generic Unix (socket, file) code.
> 
> I've been playing around with it for a while, including some heavy  
> FreeCelling, and things seem to work OK now.  Drawing is still  
> somewhat sluggish, partly because Quartz is still rather, er,  
> unoptimized, partly because there are conversions that used to be  
> necessary for drawing with NS/OS.
> 
> The code is currently a mess, partly because I just wanted to get  
> something to work at all first, partly because I have to work around  
> various conflicting assumptions.
> 
> The tasks ahead are:
> 
> - speeding up drawing
> 
> This involves removing the old conversion code that needed to create  
> an object + malloced bitmap buffer for each blit, as well as  
> figuring out what parameters are allowed for Quartz bitmap drawing  
> (currently undocumented) so maybe conversions can be avoided  
> alltogether.  Finally, the new direct-drawing API can be used, but  
> that's a lower priority item.
> 
> - FFI port
> 
> There doesn't seem to be an FFI port for MacOS-X, so I've started to  
> port it myself.
> 
> - build-system
> 
> The build-system that's been worked out for Unix doesn't mesh well  
> with MacOS-X.  So far, I've just added the necessary files to a  
> ProjetBuilder project, but there has to be a better way.
> 
> - pluginization
> 
> MacOS-X has a different mechanism for shared libraries.  It uses  
> dyld() instead of dlopen() and friends, has a concept of frameworks  
> and bundles instead of simple '.so' files and more.  Right now, I  
> seem to have shimmed-in enough so everything works (as a monolithic  
> VM), but there needs to be a better way for this as well.
> 
> - sound
> 
> Squeak Audio has to be hooked up to CoreAudio.  There are now some  
> CoreAudio examples, so it shouldn't be too difficult.
> 
> So that's the status as it is now.  If anyone is interested in a  
> package at this stage, I can prepare a package for download at the  
> usual place.  If anyone would like to help, which I would appreciate,  
> I can also post a version of the current, messy, sources for your  
> hacking pleasure, with the caveat that almost everything is currently  
> undergoing revision and a potential target removal.
> 
> Marcel