From: chrisridd@mac.com   
      
   On 11/02/2025 21:45, Francois LE COAT wrote:   
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > Chris Ridd writes:   
   >> Francois LE COAT wrote:   
   >>>>> I watched this from a link on Facebook - pretty interesting stuff!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Loved the way that TOS desktop was using DRI GEM PC icons and sort of   
   >>>>> resembled a Mac (Lisa?). Coolness.  :)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It looks quite like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/   
   >>>> GEM_(desktop_environment)#/media/File:Gem_11_Desktop.png   
   >>>   
   >>> The Graphic Environment Manager (GEM) from Digital Research existed both   
   >>> for ATARI ST and IBM/PC (or AmstradPC, or whateverPC) written mainly in   
   >>> "C" language, portable, and almost free software now. It could be ported   
   >>> on the ATARI VCS (a computer from ATARI S.A.!) so that ported ATARI 68k   
   >>> software (written in "C", cross-compiled, like mine) could run with it,   
   >>> eventually with the usage of a virtual machine in a first period, like   
   >>> ARAnyM. That's how Apple have done with the Mac, transitioning 68k ->   
   >>> PPC -> Intel -> ARM. Transitioning from Apple, was simple to users and   
   >>> developers, ask them! I've lived it using all different Apple computers.   
   >>>   
   >>> That could be the rebirth of ATARI computers, forty years after ST =)   
   >>> I'm not kidding! Do you know GEM, ATARI VCS, "C" language, ARAnyM, Mac?   
   >>   
   >> Actually I'd be kind of intrigued if someone can build Aranym for   
   >> iPad. The hardware is really pretty powerful and I'm sure SDL supports   
   >> iOS. Think different!   
   >   
   > Well, iPad is a tactile mobile device, and not a computer. ARAnyM means   
   > "ATARI Running on Any Machine", that means on any computer. The ATARI   
   > virtual machine is not supposed to be supported on the iPad device.   
      
   Well I disagree. An iPad is just a machine, and I don't see anywhere in   
   the Aranym docs restricting what hardware it is "supposed" to run on. In   
   fact on https://aranym.github.io it explicitly says "any kind of hardware".   
      
   The mouse emulation would be an interesting challenge, though of course   
   iPads do support pointing devices nowadays.   
      
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   Chris   
      
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