In article <[email protected]>, Steffen Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi altogether,
> [snip] > > However with a Viewfinder much larger screen modes became possible. > > > > One of the main working differences I notice between running rpcemu > > and my *Iyonix* (since I no longer have any real RPCs) is the > > availability of large, 16 million colour, screen modes. > Others have already given replies how to solve this in the current > situation. > However, it might be interesting to discuss the long term plans for > RPCemu wrt the graphics situation. Should RPCemu continue to work as a > "hardware emulator", faithfully emulating the Risc PC hardware, or > should it gain features to allow it to evolve into a "RISC OS emulator". [snip] > As a user, I would like to have a "RISC OS emulator" with maximum > performance. > Basically, I want everything and I want it now ;-) > Opinions, anyone? Well, opinion is 'free'... so... I'll agree with you. Then muddy the water a bit... :-) Speaking as an ignorant user who is clueless about the difficulties, I'd welcome a more 'RO system emulator' if this would allow it to work with as if an Iyonix, or various other hardware choices. As it is, rpcemu seems impressive and excellent to me. My personal specific concerns for it are minor. One was the VRAM side - which was obviously 'solved' before I even asked about it. The other is the way it essentially fully loads one CPU even when 'idle'.[1] But I assume this stems from the nature of RO. So goes with the territory. Another concern is perhaps more newbie-friendly intro documentation. I have had plans to do more explaining about this for newcomers via 'Archive'. But that has had a big gap in publication. And Sod's Law has occupied me with other things. A more 'RO emulator' would presumably let me duplicate an Iyonix, and allow others to model other choices of CPU/hardware. If so, might be very useful. That said, from the pure user POV it may be that emulating something like an Iyo or the newer hardware doesn't matter much if the result isn't faster than a RPC, and the emulation already lets us do things like have more VRAM and escape the standard RPC limit. The only other 'hardware' limit that occurs to me is for sound. (e.g. Iyo being stuck with only being 48k 16 bit output and having an input that clips below 0dBFS!) But I assume someone running an emulation probably won't be bothered by that. (?) However as I said, I'm totally oblivious of how much work it would entail, and what problems it might thow up for a user who just wanted to use it as a 'RPC' (or an Iyonix). Would it require a lot more setting up? >From the POV of the newbie it might be nicer if it became possible to provide a package that came with !Boot, Romset, and hd4 included. So more like a real RPC/Iyonix, you can start up and use from the first. My 2p just ran out... Slainte, Jim [1] Here the 'sleep' approach causes the known mouse problems. -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
