ncommander, 4 months ago

@Rairii honestly, I've been truly impressed watching your PowerPC on Wii stuff - considering getting it running on real hardware is hard enough.

Rairii, 4 months ago

@ncommander

i wonder how long it'll take me to figure out the current instability on real hardware.

i would like to attempt a port of ppc nt to powerpc mac too (if i had one)

grackle having proper endianness swapping support, combined with G3 being when actual support for loading veneer was added to OF, combined with apple documentation from that time mentioning an NT port, paints an interesting picture...

i've done all the research i can do with static analysis. i can't experiment with memory controller registers without the actual hardware!

ncommander, 4 months ago

@Rairii

Do you need an powerpc NT capable machine? I actually have two, and I rather see my RS/6000 Model 140 be used for preservation and emulation development.

ncommander, 4 months ago

@Rairii As for PowerMac, you'll run into problems because Apple's firmware has serious problems running in little endian mode. At best you'll have serial access to OF, and that's it.

Rairii, 4 months ago

@ncommander "Apple's firmware has serious problems running in little endian mode"

yeah, still not sure what's up with that or what systems are affected. i heard that it was graphics card fcode issues?

not that it actually matters that much considered i worked around the endianness issue on the wii!