Re: Sweet16 2.0 Public Beta 2 (2.0b17) released

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On Aug 11, 4:01 pm, dicen <goo...@mcarlson.com> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 6:52 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1. There are no scan lines displayed. KEGS appears to do this and it
> look a little weird without them.

Sweet16 isn't KEGS.

> 2. This is over 3x slower then KEGS and it uses 2 cores. I have a MBP
> Core 2 Duo 2.5Ghz and I only get around 50Mhz. With KEGS I get over
> 150Mhz or even more on just 1 core.

This was discussed at KFest. S16 is slowed because it's in debug mode
(hence, beta still). I think Sheppy mentioned he may provide an option
to turn debug on/off. I haven't download this release yet, but you
might look for it to see if he put it in there or not. With debug off,
it's much faster.

> 3. Where is the source code? I wouldn't even bother mentioning the

I would be surprised if source is ever released. Considering S16 is
inspired by (based on?) Bernie To the Rescue. I don't think it's
source was ever released by F.E. Systems. At least S16 is free.