From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Jul 21 03:34:41 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <20050720192715.prsdqx48k4ys4o44@coolrunningconcepts.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:27:15 -0600 From: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com To: Martin =?iso-8859-1?b?RWxz5HNzZXI=?= Cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re[3]: usage of wind_calc() References: <200507201917.p64316@ll.maus.de> In-Reply-To: <200507201917.p64316@ll.maus.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - esc14.midphase.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - fishpool.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32001 502] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - coolrunningconcepts.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, NO_REAL_NAME X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id j6L1YeRX013813 Quoting Martin Elsässer : > This is the view of the OS developer: here is a new feature, use it! But an > application developer wants, tha as much people can use the software as > possible. And the number of MagiC/MagiCMac/MagiCPC, N.AES and SingleTOS > users is a part that no developer can IMO ignore! So, are you suggesting we just not add anything new to the AES? That isn't acceptable. Providing emulation of every new AES feature within the program is just silly - its faster and less code to just not have the new features in the first place if you are going to provide equivalent emulation code anyway! > I want to use MiNT and XaAES on my Apple PowerBook (G3, 33 MHz), but with > MacOS X and ARAnyM all is very, very slow. So I use MacOS 8.6 and MagiCMac There are lots of parameters that can be tuned, and they make it faster all the time. > 6.2, and all is very fast. But now I can't use any new features XaAES has. The people that have the problem will be responsible for adding the new features to their OS of choice. The other possibility is perhaps compiling parts of MiNT for PPC native code and using the NatFeat capability of aranym to run those parts natively. If my guess is right, MagicMac is so much faster because there is a PPC native version right? > Yes, I could buy a new laptop, but I don't have the money at the moment - > our house must be paid, I have a family, and so on. So I must live with > MagiCMac 6.2 and work with it. And how many users are there with emulators I'm broke too. However, thats no reason to not improve the system. -- Evan