Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12085 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> maybe the best 3D program for MorphOS3.1 would be to try to get NewTek to
> allow 3rd party developers do a port of LightWave3D PPC to MorphOS3.1? [...]
> The PPC version of LightWave3D for Mac computers might be the easiest and
> best 3D program to port to MorphOS3.1.
Unless LightWave 3D for MacOS/PPC has been written in PPC ASM it wouldn't be substantially (if at all) easier than attempting to port any x86 version to MorphOS.
> Maybe a port is not necessary if a PPC emulator of MacOSX can run on
> MorphOS3.1. Then we just launch LightWave3D for MacOSX from the emulator.
MorphOS runs on PPC, so a PPC emulator wouldn't be necessary obviously. Quite to the contrary, it would make it crawl. What would be needed for MorphOS is a virtualization software (not an emulator, so doesn't emulate the CPU) that can run MacOS/PPC, just like
Mac-on-Linux/
Mac-on-Mac or
SheepShaver do on Linux/PPC and MacOSX/PPC.