] > > Any idea why the ASCII player needs a 500MHz Pentium even for emulating ] > > simple MSX-1 games like castle ex ] > ] > If I am correct, the player runs into a special operating system. ] > This operating system has to be emulated on the PC, ] > soo you're running an emulation of an emulation. ] ] The OS is actually called Intent, from Elate if I'm not mistaking, and it's a ] JAVA OS. I don't know how much it's optimized and if it uses JIT, but basically ] Java can be very good. Also, it doesn't nessecarily have to be too slow for According to TAO website (the company that inventented intent/elate), intent has the most performant and optimised JRE on this planet...
Nevertheless, fMSX Intent version (oops, I mean MSX Player) is indeed amazingly slow. Also on the PDAs. Let's hope that this will be significantly improved. Kind regards, Alex Wulms -- Visit The MSX Plaza (http://www.inter.nl.net/users/A.P.Wulms) for info on XelaSoft, Merlasoft, Quadrivium, SD-Snatcher on fMSX, the MSX Hardware list, XSA Disk images, documentation, Japanese MSX news from Ikeda and lots more. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
