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

[Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>]

On Aug 11, 6:23 pm, dicen <goo...@mcarlson.com> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2:48 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 11, 5:01 pm, dicen <goo...@mcarlson.com> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 10, 6:52 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > I’ve posted Sweet16 2.0 Public Beta 2, otherwise known as Sweet16
> > > > 2.0b17.  This new version adds a ton of features, including Ethernet
> > > > networking support for Marinetti, joystick support, improved graphics,
> > > > a very handy debugger for Apple II programmers, and CD-ROM support.
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> > > > For more information, visit the Sweet16 page on my web site:
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> > > >http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/index.html
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> > > > Eric Shepherd
> > > > Owner
> > > > Syndicommhttp://www.syndicomm.com/
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> > > Thank you very much for your work on this emulator. Now with that said
> > > I do have a few questions:
> > > 1. There are no scan lines displayed. KEGS appears to do this and it
> > > look a little weird without them.
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> > I've never seen KEGS show scan lines.  At any rate, that's not a
> > feature I expect to offer because it just makes the video harder to
> > read.
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> > > 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.
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> > I get 120 MHz on my Core 2 Duo iMac 2.4 GHz.  Make sure you've not
> > turned debug mode on, which slows things down by a substantial amount.
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> > > 3. Where is the source code? I wouldn't even bother mentioning the
> > > above 2 if I had the code :). Come on, your interface is great. Do you
> > > still have a JIT? Wasn't there one for PowerPC? It would be awesome to
> > > mess with that for x86-64.
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> > Sweet16 is not open source.  Due to the fact that CodeWarrior is no
> > longer a viable development option, and the assembly code was all
> > written to take advantage of CodeWarrior features, the PowerPC version
> > no longer uses the assembly core, and instead the PPC and Intel code
> > is both generated from the same C code.
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> > Eric Shepherd
> > Owner
> > Syndicommhttp://www.syndicomm.com/
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> I don't have debugging on in the preferences. Something is definitely
> wrong here if you are getting 120Mhz. Anywhere else that may turn on
> debugging?

Nope... not sure why your performance is so much lower.

> I don't care what the source code looks like, or what development
> environment it is in. I just want to look at the source code. If you
> die, so does this app. I know giving up full control is hard. But, at
> some point you have to let your children leave the nest.

I don't own this code; I'm working on it under license from the
original authors.  No amount of whining is going to make me violate my
license agreement. :)

Eric Shepherd
Owner
Syndicomm
http://www.syndicomm.com/