(this is a guest post from Tenox)
#197 – Aclock ARM Windows RT by Peter Godwin
#198 – Alock M68K LynxOS by Plamen Mihaylov
#199 – Aclock PDP11 DEMOS by Dima Naumov
And long long long awaited…
#200 – Aclock PowerPC WindowsNT HAL Driver by myself
No cheating with numbers! Compiled and ran today on my ThinkPad 860. Just realized it’s #200. I think celebration with BSOD is in order! The screenshot was made using IP KVM. I will make an actual photo of the laptop screen another day.
Again thanks for everyone for contributions!
Last but not least there is a screenshot of previously cross compiled Aclock PowerPC OS/2 running on ThinkPad 850. Both the port and picture are courtesy of Michal Necasek of OS/2 Museum. Hope he won’t kill me for leaking the photo:
need to run it on wikireader device 😀
awesome!
Congrats man. Amazing project.
This project is truly spectacular. More often than not, I find myself having to look up the platforms this project has been ported to/compiled for and end up being insanely jealous that people have (own?) access to that gear!
Congrats tenox, 200 different platforms is a huge achievement!
Any other platforms you’re chasing binaries for? Should we be aiming for 300 😉
300 will be along way. But certainly possible, even without going to game consoles and cell phones that much. So if you go back to this post you will see few more ideas. In terms of priority I think OS-9 is now one of most important. I know a guy from Radisys who can compile it on multiple CPUs once there is a port working on OS-9.
For the brave ones there is Windows NT 3.x / 4.0 POSIX subsystem (not SUA/SFU) with termcap implementation. See this. Combined NT Reskit with a very very old SDK one can actually build apps for it.
I forgot the only thing that POSIX could run worth a damn was PAX & vi… 1993 was a world away from today.
I have gxemul sprite images for gxemul and sprite for sparc
That’s not entirely true! NT Reskit came with a few utilities for POSIX subsystem. And then there was OpenNT.
OpenNT was a different animal… But without sockets, odbc or GDI. It was a checkbox.
I’m surprised there isn’t an EFI/UEFI port yet (and since we’re talking about bootloaders, it shouldn’t be too hard to port it to syslinux 4 and 5 either).
WOW would you want to try it?
Is your code written to mimic an NT HAL or is that a “native application” (and on PowerPC at that ;-))
Is this a PReP box?
I was thinking of seeing how far I could get with booting the ARC shim + ntoskrnl and a dummy HAL on my OldWorlds…
Yes it is. It’s on a ThinkPad 860, see few posts earlier. No, it actually is the HAL driver itself compiled on NT PPC under DDK. Note that native application is a little bit different concept to a driver. The main difference of course being kernel vs user mode 😉
Are the sources for the HAL driver in question that can be shared?
It’s all covered here.
for neozeed: newsstand cat, seen him? http://i.imgur.com/EOMbA9t.jpg
I have not… but once I get my mega drive (just missed fedex) I’ll go find him on my quest for blank CD’s.
after googling, he’s here:
Visit Mr. Ko and Brother Cream at Shop 1, G/F, South Seas Centre, 75 Mody Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui.
The cat is “Brother Cream” …. 🙂