On 11 Aug 2015, at 18:26, Theo Markettos <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Richard Walker wrote: >> >> https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/RPCEmu%20and%20RISC%20OS%205%20on%20Mac%20OS%20X > > That's great! I just hacked the download links to point to the parent page > so the page doesn't have to get updated for every version. It would > probably make sense for Mac builds to go on the main RPCemu web page once > they have stabilised - at the moment I'm just throwing things about for > testing. I did ponder linking to the parent. Makes sense, I guess. Agreed about the main RPCEmu page. I liked the info on ROOL’s site when I last saw it, and I like the idea that we can all edit their wiki. Aso, I didn’t realise the page wasn’t Sprow’s. Must be my laziness reading the ‘last edit’ date. :) >> As per the previous builds, my MacBook gets hot and the fans come on. >> I have a vague memory that I need to install something extra to allow >> the emulated CPU to idle... any tips, anyone? > > There is the tickbox in Preferences, however I haven't explored that. There > is also a RISC OS program that can be run (comes in the riscos-progs folder) > - I'm not clear on what the current recommended position is (all this isn't > specific to Mac as far as I'm aware) Ah yes, there is indeed an option. Dunno how I missed that! Thanks to David (and David!) for pointing that out too. >> P.S. A couple of minor suggestions: >> >> 1) default the CPU to SA110, RAM to 128MB and VRAM to 2MB. > > There's not much advantage to being in SA110 mode. There's also no > advantage to having VRAM. It probably makes sense to have the default > settings the same as the Windows version of RPCEmu so things are consistent. > Should all versions move to 128MB RAM? The reason I mentioned the VRAM was because a note somewhere said that RISC OS 5 might show display corruption without it. Also, I have found that with the ARM610 CPU emulation, RISC OS 5 is quite crash-happy. From a clean-boot, if I wiggle around a filter window, it will crash with some silly ‘Filer may have gone wrong’. SA110 is fine. Has anyone else found this? I’m sure I read somewhere that the SA110 emulation is the most extensively used and so the most developed/mature. I could be mis-remembering. >> 2) default the sound to on. > > Is there a reason why this is not enabled by default? Is it so on Windows? Good question. _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
