Re: Bernie Warp 4 Comments

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

In <5ju4ar$bio@dove.qut.edu.au> yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au writes:

> 	Still, on my PPC601-75MHz emulating the GS is cool, I get about 
> 4.5MHz equalivant in GS speed. Even this low low end PowerMac can give 
> this type of a speed, I AM IMPRESSED.

You are just getting 4.5Mhz? You have either a) SpeedNanny enabled b) a lot of
extensions c) menu clock active d) many Finder windows open or e) all of the
above :-). Seriously, you should get 6Mhz minimum.
If you want we can look at this more in detail - please contact me at
emutech@magnet.ch .
 
> 	How about speeding up the Ensoniq emulation a bit ? It's better 
> then v1.0b3, but still lags trying to convert the signals and you can tell 
> it is not smooth. Try running bee.seq in SynthLab "Flight of the Bumble 
> Bee", that will be a challenge.

Sound is such an overkill. This "Bee" song is very fast, and since we increased
the sound buffer, Bernie is now adding a little bit more quantization than
before. The bees may sound a little bit drunk.
The main reason, though, is that SynthLab is producing such an awful lot of
interrupts that on anything below 100Mhz the emulated GS can hardly cathc up.
We have therefore added IRQ buffering so the timeline is ok more or less, but
still you will possibly encounter slightly varying playback speed.
 
> 	Will changing speed nanny to 1MHz automatically change the GS's 
> Control Panel's speed to 'Normal' ???

Nope :-). Give SpeedNanny a buzz!
 
cu,
henrik