Yeah, I'm surprised at hearing 1 gig. Even on Windows, the DotNet Framework is nowhere near that large.
Tom Wilson [email protected] (619)940-6311 K6ABZ On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:45 AM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. >
