Re: Optimising ArcEm for ARM hosts

2010-07-31 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Chris Young wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:03:04 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: I doubt I'll be looking at ArcEm much more in the near future, so I'll leave it to you to decide what (if anything) to do with these changes. I haven't tried them on anything

Re: Optimising ArcEm for ARM hosts

2010-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Chris Young wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:38:49 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: I didn't make any effort to ensure the new memory code ran on big-endian machines, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's failing. Take a look at the LoadByte, StoreByte and SwapByte

Re: arcem

2011-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Jeffrey Lee wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Chris Gransden wrote: Is there any way of getting an indication of the speed against a real machine. I've tried !Sick. That gives processor 20 MHz and Memory 14 MHz. Is that likely to accurate. I don't think any of the frontends

Further RISC OS port work

2011-08-21 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Hi, I've completely broken the other frontends, but here's the results of another week of working on ArcEm: * Source: http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem-src.zip * RISC OS build: http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem.zip Changes (or at least as much as I can remember): * Made

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-08-28 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Hi Ralph, On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Jeffrey, Nice to see some activity on arcem. Out of interest, do you just work on the source as one long activity or use an SCM, like Subversion or Bazaar, locally to break up the edits? Cheers, Ralph. Since ArcEm is quite small

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Right, third version uploaded, same place as before: http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem-src.zip (Source) http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem.zip (RISC OS build) Compared to the previous version, this one features: * New display driver for palettised output (arch/paldisplaydev.c).

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-09-11 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Chris Young wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 20:23:38 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: * Amiga GP2X display code has been modified to use the palettised driver. So with any luck both those platforms will work with only minimal fixes. However I haven't tried to add

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-10-08 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Another new version uploaded, same place as usual. A fair number of changes went into this version so I haven't attached a patch, but let me know if you'd like one. http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem-src.zip (source) http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem.zip (RISC OS build)

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-10-09 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Michael Drake wrote: In article Pine.WNT.4.62.1110090200090.2404@c203, Jeffrey Lee m...@phlamethrower.co.uk wrote: Another new version uploaded http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem-src.zip (source) http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/arcem.zip (RISC OS build

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-10-18 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Chris Young wrote: On 17 Oct 2011 23:58:51 +, Chris Young wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:06:27 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: Right, another new version: A couple of changes to get it to compile attached (there may be a better place than hostfs.h

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-10-19 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Wed, 18 Oct 2011, Chris Young wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:53:22 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: Rather than keep breaking the Amiga version, I think I'll have a go at installing a version of QEMU that I can use to test the big-endian version of ArcEm. A quick google throws

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-10-20 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Thu, 19 Oct 2011, Chris Young wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:52:14 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: The problem was a bug in the endian swapping code, but it would only affect the last few bytes of the transfer. Any transfer which ended on a word boundary would have been OK

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Chris Young wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:53:22 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: It wouldn't surprise me if things are horribly broken on systems where 'int' is only 16 bits. Erm, int is 16-bit here... maybe this is the issue? I'll save my !Boot for now

Re: Further RISC OS port work

2011-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, Under 64-bit Linux I'm getting a window that doesn't handle expose events and New mode: 0x0, 400Hz (CR 0 ClockIn 24Mhz) rapidly scrolling up the screen. Anyone else see that? This is with arcem-fast straight from CVS followed by a `make'.

Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu 'viewfinder'?

2011-11-02 Thread Jeffrey Lee
(Whoops, make sure I get the right email address for arcem-devel this time. Apologies to Andew who'll get this twice!) Hi Andrew, On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Andrew Flegg wrote: Apologies for the off-topicyness, but I've built the arcem-fast branch with 'make SOUND_SUPPORT=yes' and run it under

Re: arcem arminit.c,1.8.2.6,1.8.2.7 hostfs.c,1.17.2.10,1.17.2.11

2011-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Chris Young wrote: On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:47:16 +, Jeffrey Lee wibbled on for an age: Update of /cvsroot/arcem/arcem In directory vz-cvs-4.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv11622 Modified Files: Tag: arcem-fast arminit.c hostfs.c Log Message: HostFS fixes

Re: arcem arminit.c,1.8.2.6,1.8.2.7 hostfs.c,1.17.2.10,1.17.2.11

2011-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Jeffrey Lee wrote: FYI, there's still a bug lurking somewhere in the hostfs code. I thought I'd fixed it with my changes earlier, but for some reason if Wolf 3D is running from HostFS then it will often fail to close the savegame file after loading it, preventing the game

Re: ArcEm OS X port

2012-06-05 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Hi guys, As you've seen there are quite a few bits which need fixing up in order to get the OS X port to work again. I would have done most of it myself, but then Ian said he was planning on redoing the OS X port from scratch, so I decided to leave the tidying up to him (especially since I

Re: Web site maintainer

2012-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Michael being the website maintainer sounds good to me. At one point I was planning on updating it a bit myself with a new RISC OS build, but I guess I never put in the effort to track down someone who could explain it all or give me the right permissions. On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Ian Jeffray

Re: Web site maintainer

2012-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Michael Drake wrote: On index.html -- http://arcem.sourceforge.net/ I think it's just the Features section which is out of date. It has Features of version 1.00, and Additional features of the CVS version. I'm not sure if the CVS section has been kept updated or if

Re: Web site maintainer

2012-07-26 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Jeffrey Lee wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Michael Drake wrote: On manual.html -- http://arcem.sourceforge.net/manual.html [...] This page has a change log up to version 1.00, which will need updated for 1.50. Indeed - I'll try knocking up a changelog summarising

Re: Web site maintainer

2012-07-26 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Chris Young wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:13:08 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Jeffrey Lee wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Jeffrey Lee wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Michael Drake wrote: On manual.html -- http://arcem.sourceforge.net/manual.html [...] This page has a change

Re: X11 video scaling

2012-07-27 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Hi Andrew, On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Andrew Flegg wrote: Hi, Is there something I've missed which'd allow video scaling (say 2x) for modes 640x480. It looks like the other ports have something like it, so are there any pointers for where to start hacking on it? Presumably, the scaling factor

Re: X11 video scaling

2012-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Andrew Flegg wrote: On 29 July 2012 20:09, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: What happens to 'HD' after its been initialised? What actually does the pixel blatting and how could this be getting confused with a 2 XScale, but not a 2 YScale? Ah, it seems that

Re: X11 video scaling

2012-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Andrew Flegg wrote: On 29 July 2012 20:18, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: Ah, it seems that SDD_Name(RowFunc) dispatches to an explicit set of functions which only support 1X and 2X. Hmm. These 16 functions (1bpp, 2bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp @ 1x. 2x with flags and without

Re: X11 video scaling

2012-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Andrew Flegg wrote: On 29 July 2012 20:41, Jeffrey Lee m...@phlamethrower.co.uk wrote: Abstractable, yes. Abstractable without impacting performance? Doubtful. Remember that I fought long and hard to get ArcEm to run at ARM2 speeds on an Iyonix, so I don't really want us

Re: X11 video scaling

2012-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Andrew Flegg wrote: On 29 July 2012 20:50, Ian Jeffray i...@jeffray.co.uk wrote: So long as we don't lose performance... lots of separately optimised functions are good for performance. And they're not /quite/ as similar as you may think at first glance. I admit I

Re: Web site maintainer

2012-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Ian Jeffray wrote: I've also started to get the Win32 build to actually build again, using VS2010 (mostly just a little breakage in the fastmap stuff to solve in a clean way). FWIW, the Win32 build (now that you've fixed all the C99-ness) builds OK with the Express

Re: Web site maintainer

2012-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Ian Jeffray wrote: Might be interesting to check if there's any noticeable (timeable) performance difference between the gcc and vs2010 builds... I'd rather hope the latter would be ahead. I'm not entirely sure if !SICK can be trusted (the CPU speed it reports seems to

Re: arcem/win dirent.h,NONE,1.1

2012-07-31 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Jeffrey, Log Message: * win/dirent.h - Free dirent.h implementation for Win32 from http://www.softagalleria.net/dirent.php, required for building HostFS in VS --- NEW FILE: dirent.h ---

Re: Arcem Manual

2012-08-06 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Michael Drake wrote: In article Pine.WNT.4.62.1208010132340.4424@c203, Jeffrey Lee m...@phlamethrower.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ralph Corderoy wrote: How about having the `User Manual' in the left-hand column at http://arcem.sourceforge.net/ link to a page

Arcem 1.50

2012-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Christmas is fast approaching, which means the ?? ?? 2012 release date I put in the changelog is looking more and more foolish: http://arcem.sf.net/changelog.html Any objections to pushing out a finished 1.50 release sometime in the next couple of weeks? Although there are more tweaks and

Re: Sourceforge Ditching CVS Write Access.

2017-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Hi, On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Sourceforge are mailing project admins pointing out CVS write access is going to stop. Read access will continue, but that might be stopped too in time. (Maintaining CVS's source is too much of a burden for them.) Given our project-admin hats,

Re: Sourceforge Ditching CVS Write Access.

2018-11-15 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Hi Ralph, On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Given our project-admin hats, Peter Naulls or I can convert the CVS to Subversion or Git following SF's instructions. https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/CVS/ Any updates on this? It looks like we might be missing out on some new

Re: Sourceforge Ditching CVS Write Access.

2018-11-16 Thread Jeffrey Lee
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Steffen Huber wrote: Ian Jeffray wrote: I'd vote for git, especially if that's coming to RISC OS (26bit?) I expect Jeffrey is currently (after successfully initiating the port of SimpleGit) working on a Git client for all Acorn machines starting with the A305 running

Re: Migrating from CVS

2023-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Lee
arcem-fast branch - in my conversion, it’s represented by a series of “Merge arcem-fast to trunk” commits, which isn’t too helpful when looking through the history. If there are no objections to this I’ll go ahead with the conversion at the weekend. Regards Cameron On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 23:09, J

Re: Migrating from CVS

2023-11-16 Thread Jeffrey Lee
Hi, GitHub sounds good to me as well. I've got no objections to you doing the conversion yourself. But I also think that a few years ago someone else mentioned that they'd done a converison - probably Chris Young: https://github.com/chris-y/arcem At a brief look Chris's conversion is