On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Hans Lermen wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Bernhard Bialas wrote:
>
> > Now its for me possible to use my 16 colors VGA chess games with xdos.
> > But one thing I have to complaine: the graphic is slow, very slow.
>
> In xdos, 16 color modes are _fully_ emulated (instruction wise), else it
> won't work.
>
> > My question is: it's possible to get an acceptable graphic speed or is
> > my old computer the reason? Here some data:
> > processor Pentium 75 MHz, 40 MB RAM, S3Trio64V 2MB, Kernel 2.2.14,
> ^^^^^^
> No chance, either run on console or get a (5 times) faster machine. The
> code is pretty optimized already, I don't see how to make it that faster.
Of course we can make it faster with the JIT stuff from Alberto Vignani.
But this is dosemu 1.1 stuff for now and the JIT simulator is not
coupled to the 1.0 interpreting instruction simulator yet. So don't hold
your breath, but I am optimistic.
Bart
