On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:01 AM Erik van der Tier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I’ve just installed LaddieAlpha on my Mac. At first this didn’t work, as > the runtime that came with the package was too old for my Mac. What package? Mono? LaddieAlpha comes with no runtime. > However, a quick trip to the Mono website fixed that issue. When > installing the Mono environment I almost fell of my chair. The install > takes up over 1GB of disk space… 1GB! And that to run a 320MB+ > diskemulator! Now don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy that I can now > exchange files directly from the Mac (first I was using DosBox + DeskLink). > But still… 1.3GB of space just to emulate a diskdrive… Even the entire > VirtualT Mac version is only 4.4MB. That's just its binaries and whatever it is packaged with. It needs more to run. > It truly boggles my mind! This is exactly what for me is the appeal of > these old machines like the M100… you could do quite a bit of work with so > little resources. > It certainly doesn't take 1.3GB to do TPDD emulation. I guess it depends on where you draw the line. On most systems .NET or Mono is shared across the OS. And most of Mono is not used by LaddieAlpha. LaddieAlpha is 70K. Maybe it's a peculiarity of OSX where the typical model is applications come packaged with all their dependencies. It's different on Windows and Linux. -- John.
