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XGS Rewrite for Win32 - Front end developers needed





Good news folks.

I have undertaken the great task of rewriting XGS to become a Win32 specific 
emulator (the reasons why are too numerous and will be given out on request).

Now the good news is as follows:

	1 - The emulator is now a multi-threaded dual interface COM component
	    that can be used inside of Visual Basic, VC++, Java or any
	    other platform or compiler that supports the COM binary spec.
	    People who think that performance is an issue should email
	    me and I will dismiss any fears.

	2 - I am trying to get a windowed version of the component to 
	    work **efficiently**. I have a windowed version, but it is
	    extremely slow and buggy.

The bad news:

	1 - It is still slow (which will change)
	2 - It is very thread-unsafe (due to some poor coding tehniques
	    used within the core.. Sorry josh...)
	3 - It is very buggy (like it wasn't before)

If you are a developer, and are interested in getting a beta/debug version
of this component, please let me know, and I will email you the binaries
and interface definitions. Sorry, but for the time being, I am keeping the 
COM wrapper and XGS core changes a secret. They will eventually be released
as public domain, but not until I am happy with the code base.

If you are interested in testing and writing a front end for this beast, 
please let me know. 

smentzer@ecom.net