4 Plans TODO

Wolfgang Thaller edited this page 2018-01-13 16:03:51 +01:00

Table of Contents

• 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.