From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Oct 19 21:04:47 2006 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:56:04 +0300 From: "George (HOL, IMAP)" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.85.03) Professional Reply-To: "George (HOL, IMAP)" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1009959817.20061019215604@hol.gr> To: MiKRO Cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: [MiNT] Re[2]: Re[2]: 68030 MMU crash course? In-Reply-To: References: <188640904.20061019143010@hol.gr> <1677101202.20061019194218@hol.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id k9JJ4kon028463 Hello MiKRO, Thursday, October 19, 2006, 9:32:59 PM, you wrote: > FYI, this is already done by TOS. Even on ct60  TOS Didier did this. So no > problem here (whole 0x00FFxxxx area is already "mirrored" on 0xFFFFxxxx) Not on 4.04. At least not on the state the MMU is when booting. > can i ask why do you find this as easier solution? Patching the binary is a > question of one clever script/program which search for 0xffffxxxx in code > segment with some exceptions maybe... but it could be automated for sure a lot. Well, if we program the MMU efficiently I think it will be easier because we won't even notice if it will be needed. > I wish you good luck. Thanks :) > What rule do you use to choose which game will be > ported? I think a lot of games doesn't need to be ported since... they are > crap. There is maybe 40-50 cool ST games which  are worth to do it... No serious criteria really. We just do what we fancy. Some are games we enjoy a lot and the extra speed makes them more enjoyable. Some of those are requests from other people. -- Best regards, George Nakos Nurse Donna: Oh, Groucho, I'm afraid I'm gonna wind up an old maid. Groucho: Well, bring her in and we'll wind her up together. Nurse Donna: Do you believe in computer dating? Groucho: Only if the computers really love each other.