[fpc-other] Source code of Adobe Photoshop 1 published

[Tomas Hajny]

On Fri, February 15, 2013 08:32, Alexander Stohr wrote:
> Am 2013-02-14 18:42, schrieb Sven Barth:
>> Maybe we can try it once m68k support is good enough again and Mac OS
>> support has been revived and implemented for m68k ;)
> i think a port to the MS/IBM/Intel-PC platform would have been done
> faster.
> nevertheless it can give the 68k some noticeable boost again.

I'm not so sure about the porting being faster - I can imagine that big
parts of the functionality rely on the underlying OS API rather than RTL
which would be (at least partly) compatible to what we have today, so
porting would probably require not only knowledge of the 68k assembler (to
rewrite those assembler routines), but also a detailed knowledge of the
MacOS API to understand what is done there and why (and how to port it to
some other platform).

Tomas