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PCemOnMac / PCemV14MacOSX

MacOS port of PCem low-level PC hardware emulator PCem V14. Experimental OpenGL 3 port.
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PCem-MacOSX Metal release #4

Open mortinus opened 5 years ago

mortinus commented 5 years ago

Hi, I would like to know if PCem-MacOSX will run on new MAC OS with Metal libraries without the support for OpenGL.

Next fall, with the new Catalina OS, only structured applications for Metal/64bit will be able to run superbly, the other are deprecated.

Bye

kyr0 commented 5 years ago

Hi mortinus,

yeah, I did ran across that issue as well. This mostly depends on SDL2's Metal support and how compatible the shader interfaces will be. If SDL2 adds support for Metal 3D (2D is supported since 2.0.8) it should be quite easy to update to a new minor/patch version of SDL2 and add Metal to https://github.com/kyr0/PCemV14MacOSX/blob/4b3abd05a3852fded1ac77340e7b50c8fa788db5/src/wx-sdl2-video.c#L34

Please note that this repo is not official. There is no official support for MacOS for PCemV14 atm.

Best, Aron

Haroldo64 commented 5 years ago

Great emulator, we hope it will be updated on Mac OS next fall ...and after !!!

Thanks BYE

DaitarnIII commented 5 years ago

Oh yes, this kind of emulartor is a need for Mac OS users !

Thanks

UgoCaneFifone commented 5 years ago

Thanks by all Mac OS Users! Great projet !

puleyo commented 5 years ago

Wow ! Unofficial mmmm....

This is a great emulator, this must become an official port ! Go on ! Thank you !!!

kyr0 commented 5 years ago

Thanks a lot to you all! :) I'm happy as well. This project was/is fun and a good opportunity to learn for me. And it's just amazing to play all these games of my childhood on my Macbook in native speed and feeling :)

If you'd like to help this port to gain a little more momentum, you could also show your interest for an official port in this post of the official forum: https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3223&p=12524

The heavy lifting for PCem has been done by Sarah Walker over the course of more than a decade :) I believe that official support could be in sight when there is enough community demand and support for MacOS. But it's absolutely up to her - her workload is already "crazy" :))

But I'm willing to continue to port upcoming PCem versions as well when there is enough interest (V14 works great for me).

PCemV15 has been released shortly after I released this port. I'm actually thinking about porting V15 to MacOS as well.

Are you interested in the V15 updates?

Thanks and best, Aron

Alessandro1970 commented 3 years ago

Hi, Apple has deprecated opengl and next year rosetta2 will begin to abandon us. It would be necessary to start supporting Metal and AppleSilicon M1. For the rest PCem will have a great future, I believe! bye

kyr0 commented 3 years ago

Hey @Alessandro1970 actually, as far as I've read, Apple is having support for OpenGL on Apple Silicon: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/650427

Do you have more recent info about rosetta removing support for OpenGL completely? Best :)

Alessandro1970 commented 3 years ago

Ok, but Metal and Arm code give best result for us...

kyr0 commented 3 years ago

Yeah, at some point we need to do this :) https://www.raywenderlich.com/9211-moving-from-opengl-to-metal

kyr0 commented 3 years ago

Another opportunity to learn... xD

Alessandro1970 commented 3 years ago

Will Pcem have an Universal core ? (intel+ARM)