[HECnet] Ersatz-11 PDP-11 emulator V7.0

[Sampsa Laine]

Yuk.     I would think that a OS interface library might help here.     Linux, Mac OS and *BSD are all pretty much the same for the basic I/O and all three support most of the basic low level OS stuff from open/close/read/write to mmap/semphores etc..     Where they differ is in UI and specifically GUI.     I wonder if you considered something like QT for everything but DOS, I would like the amount of OS specific code you had to deal with I would hope would drop substantially.     

QT would look like ass, frankly, esp on OS X. 

I'd go for SDL and just make the UI a framebuffer thats a DOS screen with the same inputs as the DOS version. No need to write any manuals either :)

Or SDL and a Star Trek interface or whatever, but all the cross-platform GUI stuff looks TERRIBLE on OS X.

Sampsa