list <[email protected]> wrote: > I have RO5.14 and an older RPC 4.02. I'm about to get an EeePC 1002H or > S101 (with SSD) and want to run the RISC OS apps I use daily for work. The > EeePC running XP would be for online banking etc, a RISC OS emulator, and > an EPOC emulator. I assume I could also dual-boot ubuntu, and maybe use > RPCEmu from there. > > How does RPCEmu on XP or linux compare with Virtual RiscPC on XP? > > Aps I'm interested in running are Pluto/POPStar email fetching, ProCAD+ > and OvationPro. and I'll want to network by cable to the Iyonix. > > I've looked throught the archives back to Jan08 but found little mention > of comparatave commentary between these two emulators.
I have rpcemu 0.7 on WindowsXP SP3 running on a single core 1.39GHz Celeron, the bad news is that that version of rpcemu just seizes up on that machine so I cannot do a direct comparison with the VRPC on that machine. To be fair that is an old rpcemu, an up to date spoon edition may do better. On Vista, a 2*2GHz processor, I had no such problem, VRPC is faster than the recompiler version of rpcemu with results between 2 and 5 times in VRPC's favour. Speed tests can be misleading, rpcemu looked to be most satisfactory in tests though to be fair I have yet to use rpcemu for real. I now use a Mac so it is not an option anyway. Perhaps the most significant difference between VRPC and rpcemu is networking connectivity. rpcemu on Linux can be made to network and see the internet, and some clever person even got ShareFS to work. The Windows rpcemu does not network at all. VRPC's interconnectivity is very good, ShareFS does the business with the Iyonix, that taken with VRPC's ability to mount directories on the host machine makes VRPC a useful bridge between RISC OS and the various host OSes. It is as ever horses for courses but just to maintain balance rpcemu is a fine achievement that works well, it is under current development and is not hobbled with software protection. -- David Pitt MessengerPro on iMac, Snow Leopard _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
