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From: Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 21:30:02 +0200
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> On 1 May 2009 at 11:17, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote:
>
>> So with some work a TOS binary can be dis-assembled into M68k
>> assembler.
>>
>> Could http://www.microapl.co.uk/asm2c/index.html  be used to convert
>> it to C. A lot of work but for some crucial applications it might
>> be worth it. I realise it might stretch the EULA a little bit but
>> when the author/owner cannot be found who is going to complain for
>> the quantity of users we are talking about ?

Like Vincent suggested earlier, user land binary emulation eliminates  
the need to do this.
It's not that hard to implement, and solves the problem regardless of  
platform/CPU. Native and emulated binaries can co-exist, and there is  
even a possibility to make dirty applications more compatible than  
before.

-- PeP