executor

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done:

This page is an attempt at coordinating what people are hacking on in Executor, and a place to dump the dozens of ideas what could be done.

(in no particular order) Some of these are relatively easy, some are a lot of work, others are genuinely scary. Everyone, please feel free to add new ideas or to add "clarification needed" to existing ideas.

Find a way to do a detailed log of all invoked traps (<- I, @autc04, am currently thinking about this)
Debug why Lemmings doesn't work any more
Add a PowerPC CPU emulator (and complete the Mixed Mode Manager implementation)
Find the current program's icon, pass it to the front end and change executor's Dock icon accordingly
Set the application name of Executor in the Dock to the current application's name (Will work on Linux; Apple doesn't seem to support this, maybe there's a hack around it)
Compile the Browser source code using the Retro68 toolchain
- An alternative could be ksherlock's mpw. Downside is that it's Mac-only.
Make the Browser launch applications as separate Executor processes, so we can have a MultiFinder equivqalent.
Automatically put the System Folder in the right place when Executor first starts (and figure out what "the right place" is)
Make the system file and Browser read only and store it together with the Executor application (i.e. in it's .app bundle on the mac), but keep Mac application preferences in a writable location (in the Users home directory).
Get the windows version to work
Make things compile using MSVC on windows
make the file management code compatible with the way Basilisk and Executor store their files on non-Mac platforms
make the file management code compatible with Apple's current ._ convention for AppleDouble files on USB sticks etc.
make the file management code use unicode to store non-ascii mac filenames
make the file management code use C++17's std::filesystem::path to simplify things (and make them more portable).
make 16- and 32 bits per pixel mode work
teach executor to use multiple screens
make DragWindow and GrowWindow work properly with rootless window mode (the gray outline isn't visible where there is no window behind it)
run iwyu (include what you use) on the source files to clean up header file usage
fix dates: The host OS reports them with +100 years
file names with non-ASCII symbols on the host show up as gibberish under Executor

done:

fix/quiet "Expected sizeof(x) to be y, got z" warnings in 64-bit code.