Running on an iPhone
Francois LE COAT
I just bought an Apple 3G iPhone, and was wondering whether someone
would be interested to port ARAnyM on this small computer hosted with
a sort of Mac OS X, and having the power of a machine from year 2000.
There's an open SDK available for it, and I'm not measuring the effort
at the moment. So if you have some experience with this kind of embedded
developments please give ones opinion, you're welcome.
ARAnyM already runs on my Linux Vaio laptop, on my 1.25GHz G4 MDD and on
my PlayStation 3 (Linux). The point is iPhone has a tactile interface.
ATARIstically yours =)
Regards,
--
François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
http://eureka.atari.org/
http://fon.gs/eureka/
Didier Méquignon
> Hi,
>
> I just bought an Apple 3G iPhone, and was wondering whether someone
> would be interested to port ARAnyM on this small computer hosted with
> a sort of Mac OS X, and having the power of a machine from year 2000.
>
> There's an open SDK available for it, and I'm not measuring the effort
> at the moment. So if you have some experience with this kind of embedded
> developments please give ones opinion, you're welcome.
Personnally Ihave some ideas for use another embbedded proccessor
(Freescale MPC5121e):
http://www.mtcera.com/product/img/05.jpg
there are more Mips by Mhz (Debian Linux).
Good luck!
--
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Francois LE COAT
Didier Méquignon writes :
> Francois LE COAT wrote :
>> I just bought an Apple 3G iPhone, and was wondering whether someone
>> would be interested to port ARAnyM on this small computer hosted with
>> a sort of Mac OS X, and having the power of a machine from year 2000.
>>
>> There's an open SDK available for it, and I'm not measuring the effort
>> at the moment. So if you have some experience with this kind of embedded
>> developments please give ones opinion, you're welcome.
>
> Personnally Ihave some ideas for use another embbedded proccessor
> (Freescale MPC5121e):
>
> http://www.mtcera.com/product/img/05.jpg
>
> there are more Mips by Mhz (Debian Linux).
How strange ! It would be the first time a big-endian configuration
embedding a Coldfire processor would be so called a "Personal Computer".
The 3G iPhone is powered with an ARM processor, and the hosted OS is
a Berkeley Software Distribution Unix, am I wrong ?
Big-endian Unices are coming back again, for everyday life customers.
That's really interesting, indeed.
ATARIstically yours =)
Didier Méquignon
> Hi Didier,
>
> Didier Méquignon writes :
> > Francois LE COAT wrote :
> >> I just bought an Apple 3G iPhone, and was wondering whether someone
> >> would be interested to port ARAnyM on this small computer hosted with
> >> a sort of Mac OS X, and having the power of a machine from year 2000.
> >>
> >> There's an open SDK available for it, and I'm not measuring the effort
> >> at the moment. So if you have some experience with this kind of embedded
> >> developments please give ones opinion, you're welcome.
> >
> > Personnally Ihave some ideas for use another embbedded proccessor
> > (Freescale MPC5121e):
> >
> > http://www.mtcera.com/product/img/05.jpg
> >
> > there are more Mips by Mhz (Debian Linux).
>
> How strange ! It would be the first time a big-endian configuration
> embedding a Coldfire processor would be so called a "Personal Computer".
Hum.. before Feescale...
MCF was Motorola ColdFire.
MPC was Motorola PowerPC.
The fastest coldfire is always the v4e at 266 MHz (PFU & MMU), 3 or 4
years old now.
Here it's not a fastest PPC, it's an e300 core clocked at 400 MHz, but
it's an SOC (System On Chip) for reduce chips on the motherboard. It's a
tri-core because there are also on the chip an ALE (32 bits core for
audio), and a 3D graphics engine. On the chip because it's a
microcontroller there are also (like the colfire) CAN, ethernet, PSC
(programmable serial controllers), USB, SDRAM DDR controller, DMA, PCI.
But here also on the chip PATA, SATA, S/PDIF, DIU (display interface
unit), etc.. A total of 516 pins on the chip.
Regards,
Didier.
calimero
> The 3G iPhone is powered with an ARM processor, and the hosted OS is
> a Berkeley Software Distribution Unix, am I wrong ?
iPhone (3G and first 2G version are same) run iPhone OS which is
cutdown version od Mac OS X. So probably Hatari could be ported to
iPhone o:)
beside iPhone has ARM11 CPU downlocked to ~417MHz from 670MHz, it also
has PowerVR 3D chip, support core animation in Mac OS X....
so is it possible to make e.g. Hatari to run on iPhone??
Francois LE COAT
Didier Méquignon wrote :
> MCF was Motorola ColdFire.
> MPC was Motorola PowerPC.
I was making a confusion between those two kind of CPU references.
So, Freescale is designing PowerPCs, while IBM rather promote Cells.
That's interesting. So you're interested in PPC CPUs though Apple
switched to Intel, and no major informatics companies are still now ?
May we wish one day ATARI will propose their own hardware again ;-)
Best regards,
Joey Jojo Jr. Shabaddoo
Francois LE COAT <lec...@atari.org> wrote:
> Didier Méquignon wrote :
> > MCF was Motorola ColdFire.
> > MPC was Motorola PowerPC.
>
> I was making a confusion between those two kind of CPU references.
>
> So, Freescale is designing PowerPCs, while IBM rather promote Cells.
>
> That's interesting. So you're interested in PPC CPUs though Apple
> switched to Intel, and no major informatics companies are still now ?
>
> May we wish one day ATARI will propose their own hardware again ;-)
>
> Best regards,
I'm all for an official iPhone App version of Arynym - not only would
it be cool, it would give Sinclap a brain fart :)
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eric
Last I knew Apple will not allow emulators on the iPhone platform so
any port would require a jail-broken iPhone.
psinc...@gmail.com
> Hi,
>
> I just bought an Apple 3G iPhone, and was wondering whether someone
> would be interested to port ARAnyM on this small computer hosted with
> a sort of Mac OS X, and having the power of a machine from year 2000.
>
Francois LE COAT
eric writes :
> Francois LE COAT wrote :
>> I just bought an Apple 3G iPhone, and was wondering whether someone
>> would be interested to port ARAnyM on this small computer hosted with
>> a sort of Mac OS X, and having the power of a machine from year 2000.
>>
>> There's an open SDK available for it, and I'm not measuring the effort
>> at the moment. So if you have some experience with this kind of embedded
>> developments please give ones opinion, you're welcome.
>>
>> ARAnyM already runs on my Linux Vaio laptop, on my 1.25GHz G4 MDD and on
>> my PlayStation 3 (Linux). The point is iPhone has a tactile interface.
>
> Last I knew Apple will not allow emulators on the iPhone platform so
> any port would require a jail-broken iPhone.
We don't speak about an emulator, so far as I understand the aim.
"
ARAnyM is an acronym : Atari Running on Any Machine. It is a virtual
machine software for running the Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems
(TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and others) and TOS/GEM applications on any kind
of hardware - be it an IBM clone (read it as "PC" :-), an Apple, an Unix
server, a graphics workstation or even a portable computer.
"
This isn't excluding the iPhone, supporting all kind of softwares.
ATARIstically yours =)
Regards,
--
François LE COAT