Re: GSport-ers on Pi?

[Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu>]

On Apr 22, 10:15 am, David Schmenk <dschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> Not a simple change, but how about a SDL driver?  X11 on pi is painful and sucks some of the performance from gsport.  I compiled KEGS-SDL on the pi and got it running with the exception of getting a disk image loaded.  It gets a little performance boost from running with SDL and full-screen mode is much better as it isn't trying to scale a 640x200 window to 1280x1080 in software.
>
> Also, in your spare time, the 65816 emulation should be rewritten in ARM assembly.  That would be sweet!
>
> Dave...

I am not disagreeing with Dave Schmenk, but I am not following the
logic.  Running GSport in the native X graphics (LXDE or whatever)
performance is quite good.  Running X11 on a Mac (osx 10.8.3) and
using ssh to the RPi, then yes performance does suffer a bit
(emulation speed does not, but console (keyboard/mouse/screen) does
suffer).  I have never knowingly used SDL so I can't comment if it
would help.  I think Kegs/GSport both run well natively on a RPi.

Yeah, 65816 emulation in ARM would be sweet ;-)

  --Steve