Classic Mac emulation (was Re: Microkernels (WAS RE: New to the list.))

[Zane H. Healy]

At 7:46 AM -0400 8/6/06, Brad Parker wrote:
>"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
>>
>>I'm actually looking to be able to talk classic Appletalk via an
>>emulator rather than TCP/IP.
>
>Mmmm.  The emulator would have to patch the roms and catch the calls to
>the LAP driver.  At the bottom it's talking to the SCC in a way that
>might make it hard to emulate.  It might be possible to fool the code
>into thinking everything was ok and then collect the packet bytes...
>
>(ugg.  i've worked on lap drivers talking directly to the scc.  that
>code was extremely timing critical.)
>
>thinking about writing an scc chip emulator makes my head hurt.
>
>-brad

Are you talking about Appletalk over serial?  I meant over ethernet.

		Zane

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