@wezm Interesting! I’m just going by the post I spotted on emaculation from the author last night which seemed to imply this was brand new, but I guess being open source and all it’s been developed “in the open” for quite some time.
@smallsco @wezm emudevs often make a decision when their emulator is 'good enough' to make a public announcement about, even if you could in theory download it for a while. Stealth mode development.
MartyPC was on github for a year, but I didn't announce it until it ran Area5150. I think FPU support got Snow in a position twvd felt like it was ready for people to check out.
@gloriouscow @wezm Hopefully twvd’s okay with all the attention - I didn’t expect this post to blow up to the extent that it has!
@smallsco I think he's just surprised. It's nice to have acknowledgement of your hard work. His research into low level Mac floppy emulation is top notch stuff. I had the privilege of watching him figure out the IWM.
He wrote a blog about that which is definitely worth checking out and should be a seminal resource for future Mac emudevs
https://thomasw.dev/post/mac-floppy-emu/
@gloriouscow Not just for future Mac emudevs but for hardware devs as well - we still don’t have a full IWM clone in hardware (although there are a few works-in-progress):
https://www.applefritter.com/content/announcing-iwmless-iwm-substitution-call-beta-testers
https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/cloning-the-iwm-sort-of.49939/
https://github.com/DosFox1/Shim-IWM