Hi altogether, [snip] > However with a Viewfinder much larger screen modes became possible. > > One of the main working differences I notice between running rpcemu and my > *Iyonix* (since I no longer have any real RPCs) is the availability of > large, 16 million colour, screen modes.
Others have already given replies how to solve this in the current situation. However, it might be interesting to discuss the long term plans for RPCemu wrt the graphics situation. Should RPCemu continue to work as a "hardware emulator", faithfully emulating the Risc PC hardware, or should it gain features to allow it to evolve into a "RISC OS emulator". Now that RISC OS 5 is available in source, it would be possible to write an "Emulator HAL" to achieve optimum performance by tailoring the OS and the emulator's code to work together. HostFS is already a step in that direction. Others may involve graphics, sound, memory management, mouse, keyboard, networking... I know that Tom is a "hardware emulator" fan who likes to emulate strange podules and all that. I don't know which direction Matthew and Peter prefer. As a developer, I like the "hardware emulator" thing because it eases testing with various older RISC OS versions on hardware that is mostly identical to that of potential users. As a user, I would like to have a "RISC OS emulator" with maximum performance. Basically, I want everything and I want it now ;-) Opinions, anyone? [snip] Have fun, Steffen _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
