Attached is a set of patches to port the precise timer that is currently used in the Linux and BeOS builds of SheepShaver to Mac OS X (and any other Mach-based operating systems).
Currently, the Linux build uses the clock_gettime() function to get nanosecond-precision time, and falls back on gettimeofday() if it is not present. Unfortunately, Mac OS X does not currently support clock_gettime(), and gettimeofday() has only microsecond granularity. The Mach kernel, however, has a clock_get_time() function that does very nearly the same thing as clock_gettime(). The patches to BasiliskII cause the timing functions such as timer_current_time() to use clock_get_time() instead of gettimeofday() on Mach-based systems that do not support clock_gettime().
The changes to SheepShaver involve the precise timer. The existing code for Linux uses pthreads and real-time signals to handle the timing. Mac OS X unfortunately does not seem to support real-time signals, so Mach calls are again used to suspend and resume the timer thread in order to attempt to duplicate the Linux and BeOS versions of the timer. The code is somewhat ugly right now, as I decided to leave alone the pre-existing style of the source file, which unfortunately involves #ifdefs scattered throughout the file and some duplication of code. A future patch may want to clean this up to separate out the OS-specific code and put it all together at the top of the file. However, for the time being, this seems to work.
This has not been extensively tested, because I have not been able to get my hands on a good test-case app for the classic Mac OS that would run inside the emulator and try out the timer. However, performance does seem to be better than with the pre-existing code, and nothing seems to have blown up as far as I can tell. I did find a game via a Google search - Cap'n Magneto - that is known to have problems with Basilisk/SheepShaver's legacy 60 Hz timer, and the opening fade-to-color for this game appears to run much more smoothly with the precise timer code in place.
Here is a patch to allow compiling of SS and B2 with an SDL Framework. You can
get this by downloading from:
http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.13.dmg
Here is how I tested on an intel 32-bit mac with Mac OS X 10.5.6:
SS ./autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf --enable-sdl-framework --enable-sdl-framework-prefix=/Users/mzs/Library/Frameworks --enable-sdl-video --disable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real
--without-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --without-x
SS /autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf --disable-sdl-framework --disable-sdl-video --disable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real --without-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --with-x
B2 ./autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf --enable-sdl-framework --enable-sdl-framework-prefix=/Users/mzs/Library/Frameworks --enable-sdl-video --enable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real --without-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --without-x --enable-jit-compiler
B2 ./autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf --disable-sdl-framework --disable-sdl-video --disable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real --with-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --with-x --enable-jit-compiler
(esound does not really work on mac, it needs some better coreaudio patches.)
configure.ac for SS has two little additional fixes so that the Cocoa prefs gui
does not get built if you are building for X11 and so that you can use esd, sdl,
or coreaudio for sound.
I was testing some other SS patches and I noticed that when I ran an X11
build of SS there were not all the video modes I expected in the the
control strip. Mac OS X 10.5 changed the form of the DISPLAY environment
variable. The reason for this is that the DISPLAY variable looks like
this in Leopard:
/tmp/launch-XXXXXX/:0
The Xs are like in mktemp.
Here is a patch that has a shell script cpr.sh to recursively copy directories but
discarding things that cause problems at least on 10.4 when making the .app bundles.
This first patch gets B2 and SS to build under Leopard and Tiger.
I tested this on a 32-bit intel 10.5.6 mac like so:
B2
./autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf --enable-sdl-video --enable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real --without-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --without-x
SS
./autogen.sh --disable-standalone-gui --enable-vosf -enable-sdl-video --disable-sdl-audio --enable-addressing=real --without-esd --without-gtk --without-mon --without-x --enable-jit
There is also a little tweak so that you can use sdl audio in SheepShaver when building for Mac OS X.
Makes SheepShaver compatible with Ubuntu Intrepid and
other distros that bundle the gcc-4.3 compiler.
The patch changes two things:
1. Renames the block_cache where its name collides with its class
definition.
2. Fixes the "explicit template specialization cannot have a storage
class" error in the ppc-dyngen-ops.cpp file.
Software cursor mode is now supported, although currently the existing hardware
cursor mode is used whenever possible. (Software mode will be used if you are
running with a recent version of SDL's Quartz video driver, since a bug in SDL
1.2.11 and later prevents the hardware cursor from working properly with that
driver.)
In hardware cursor mode, the hot-spot is now determined heuristically. Formerly
it could not be determined and was always (1,1), an annoyance for many cursors
other than the arrow.
In hardware cursor mode, the cursor will now be hidden when requested by the
emulated OS (such as when you are typing in a text field).
In hardware cursor mode, some cursor image formats that the code does not handle
correctly will now be rejected, causing the emulated OS to revert temporarily to
software cursor mode. Formerly you would just end up with random garbage for a
cursor. This typically happened for grayscale or color cursors; rejecting images
with rowBytes != 2 eliminates the worst cases.
clicks to right-clicks and option-clicks to middle-clicks, a feature intended
for Mac users with single-button mice who are running SDL-based games that
require a multi-button mouse. This is unhelpful in SheepShaver, where we want
command-clicks and option-clicks to be passed through unchanged to the emulated
Mac OS. We can disable the unwanted behavior by setting an environment variable
SDL_HAS3BUTTONMOUSE intended for this very purpose.
A similar change in main_windows.cpp is NOT required, because only the Quartz
video implementation is involved.
By SDL convention, putenv is used in preference to setenv, although for Unix
platforms it doesn't matter.
to cache the CPU context pointer to a register and thus rendering generated
code CPU context independent. Not useful to SheepShaver, but it is for
another project for threads emulation on plain x86-32.
Note: AltiVec performance may drop a little on x86 but this will be restored
(and even improved) in the future.
