Re: MOD player comparisons

[andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz)]

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...

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The University of CA, Irvine probably does not agree with me :)