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Q: How does the early first version of M68K emulator work?

Nicholas HumphreyContext: I'm fascinated by Rosetta 2 so I Googled a bit and reached the wiki page. It talked about the M68K emulator (embedded in ROM), and the related wiki pages says: Early versions emulated it by decoding each instruction and immediately carrying out a series of equivalent PowerPC instruction...

 
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Q: ntsc -> modern video interfaces

AntonWhat is a recommended way nowadays to add a more modern video output options to a (fpga based) project that outputs ntsc signal? Getting ntsc output right is important for me. Having any of the other interfaces is just a matter of convenience.

 
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Q: How do I run DOS 2.0 .exe and .com programs from my .exe program?

ptsI'm writing a very small .exe program in assembly, targeting DOS 2.0 (or, if it doesn't work, DOS 3.00 is also fine). It has to be able to run other DOS .com and .exe programs, wait for them to finish, get their resources (e.g. filehandles and memory) freed, and get the exit code. It has to pass ...

 
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Q: Siemens 97371-132 keybard on PS/2: How do I make the special keys emit a scancode?

NeppomukI've got a Siemens 97371-132 / S26381-K99-V120 "tri-modal" keyboard, built in 1994, with PS/2 interface. Such keyboards were used both on Siemens PCs, as well as midrange machines running the Sinix OS, and the 97000 series of terminals attached to BS/2000-based mainframes. Now I'm about to test t...

 
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Q: Power PC G4 assembly language programming question

Nicholas HumphreyI'm trying to write a simple Hello World program using iBook G4 (Mac OS X with XCode 2.5), assembled by GNU assembler 1.38. Surprisingly, there is VERY FEW material online for this architecture, even comparing to CPU decades earlier such as 68K (yeah I know it was popular but PowerPC has been pop...


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