Re: Jace. it is stable.

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:44:26 PM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> On 8/28/2012 9:12 PM, BLuRry wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:44:23 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
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> >> I know I should not gripe, and instead thank you for all your hard work, but Java is a 200+ megabyte crapfest. It is slow as hell, and inefficient beyond all reckoning. I know you'll state your reason as "portability"
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> > Is it slow?  I haven't noticed.  Last I checked, I was able to run 60fps emulation scaled to 1920x1080 without any tricks.  Surely we must be using different JVM implementations.
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> > And your assumption about my preferences is incorrect.  I wrote it in Java because I like Java and I've been using it professionally for over a decade.  The fact that the emulator works in Mac and Windows is just a bonus for anyone that uses those platforms.
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> I also write in Java, mostly because that's what we use at work.  I've 
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> also been doing it so long it's like second nature to me.  I know there 
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> are others here that gripe about Java too, and I sympathize with 
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> you/them - that would be like somebody writing something in Visual BASIC 
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> to me.  I totally get it.  I wish I could help you see why it's actually 
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> a good thing... but, like any religious argument, there's really no point.

Java is just naturally slower, yea you cant see it in FPS's but your using more system power to get the effect. Does it matter for an apple II emulator .. nah, does 200 megs of crap on my machine bother me? not really cause theres always something that needs java so its already installed.

To answer the original question, I dunno, I use appleWin, why, cause somewhere I missed the link and its not mentioned much (though Jace is talked about all the time) and since appleWin runs fine on windows and linux though wine, I never bothered to go tromping though the newsgroup looking for it

shout out a link =)