[NTLK] newton-re (was: Simulating the Newton: new version!)

[Eckhart Köppen]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2026 13:50:59 +1000, Daniel Parnell wrote:
>     I set Claude running last week to reverse engineer the whole 
> Newton 2x00 ROM to the point where I can run pretty much any Newton 
> software I want. It has produced something that seems to work really 
> well most of the time and no longer requires a ROM file to boot and 
> run. It has extracted all the resources into a form that I can now 
> make changes to the built in apps.  I should be pushing it up 
> publicly soon if anyone is interested in taking a look.

Congrats to getting it so far! This is really interesting stuff, seemed 
inevitable after all the recent advances, thanks very much for pushing 
this through! I tried something similar at the beginning of the year, 
but it was still a bit slow going back then so I put it on ice.

Beyond the obvious use case of running NewtonOS on new hardware, this 
looks really useful as a development basis for new low level NewtonOS 
components for existing hardware, for example my ancient Bluetooth 
driver. Having an environment where I could debug the integration with 
the existing NewtonOS would be great. The CommTool stack was so far 
quite complex to work with, this seems now much easier.

It also seems that Claude found the Y2010 bug :) Maybe you can feed it 
the patch 
(https://github.com/ekoeppen/NewtonY2010/blob/master/Patch7.s) and 
integrate it natively? I think just changing the functions directly 
would to the trick, no need for a full patch via the MMU.

Thanks again for the effort!

Eckhart