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Re: Interesting AppleWin behavior for a certain image



On 2011-02-15 17:06:01 -0500, sicklittlemonkey said:

On Feb 16, 6:36�am, Sheldon Simms <wsspa...@gmail.com> wrote:
That is still a bug in Applewin. The disk works fine in my hacked
"NTSC Applewin" with a CPU utilization of about 5% on a Core 2 Duo
laptop whle displaying the title screen(s).

http://wsxyz.net/applewin.html

Well, not so much a bug as an architectural decision that made sense
15 years ago but not today.

It is a bug, because A) that kind of page flipping is not unusual (although usually it is only for a short time) and B) it should not be possible for an emulated program to bring the emulator in distress like that. I'm sure it is possible to come up with a way to fix the problem in the context of the traditional Applewin video code.

It would be interesting to see how well other older emulators handle the disk.