Re: MOD player comparisons

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2BC4D5D7.8798@news.service.uci.edu> andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz) writes:
>Well, after running shellplay and being totally blown away by it (and not
>understanding why the author claims to have released in it such a sorry 
>condition) I tried running it from a graphics-based shell.  Oops, big
>mistake.  Oh well, I just hit 'esc' and everything was fine, but I did
>notice that the text screen now had _some_ of the screen updated as it
>was in the text-based shell.  The simple conclusion I came to was that
>(indeed as I was trying to figure out) shellplay writes directly to the
>text screen.  Too bad, since I wanted to see how much it slows down when
>using slow (.console? :) drivers.  I guess this says something about system
>software...

No, it says something about lazy programmers.

Thought for the day: The System Software Is Your Friend



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