3 Jul
2008
3 Jul
'08
9:33 a.m.
On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
That's the whole point of .NET. Proprietary lock-in is the only
reason Microsoft is in business today. Sleazy, but very effective.
Includes all
you need to get going. You'll need a Windows machine
with .NET Framework 2.0. (Yes, I hear the jeering from the peanut
gallery. Sorry I didn't write this for your OS. If you want to
help with a Mono port when I get this thing more finished, let me
know :))
:-)
Is it written in such a way that a port will be easy? (if it
*needs* .NET, maybe not! :-) It's beyond my expertise, but my assumption
about emulators was
always that the guts don't really change across (modern) platforms
- it's mainly the graphics layer that will be tightly coupled to
the OS.
The PCB layout software that I use (called, oddly enough, "PCB")
runs on UNIX platforms with X11. Some time ago, DJ Delorie (of DJGPP
fame, also has a project featured on the front cover of this month's
Circuit Cellar Ink) did a huge amount of work to decouple the innards
of PCB from the GUI. He calls the result "HID" (Human Interface
Device) and it has been used to create instances of PCB with a Motif
GUI, a GTK+ GUI, and someone (Der Mouse, is he here?) is even working
on a raw X11 GUI.
That sort of abstraction is nontrivial to achieve, but it is
possible.
Good work, anyway!
Seconded!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL