Like many of us I used an Iyonix as my main RISC OS computer before adopting RPCEmu. After using the latter (0.8.9 Recompiler version) daily for 4 months on a fast PC, it is clear to me that the Iyonix is outperformed in most respects, and the benchmarking I have done (!Firebench, !ROmark) supports this impression. With one substantial exception however: for graphics work generally, e.g. when manipulating several JPEGs on screen simultaneously using !Thump or !Photodesk, the Iyonix is much smoother and more responsive, with none of the 'black striping' that occurs with RPCEmu when one image is moved on top of another and the emulator backfills the underlying image.
The PC has a reasonably powerful graphics card, but presumably RPCEMu can't access this directly, whereas the Iyonix can with its card. For the record I'm using 0.8.9/4.02 with 256MB RAM; 0.8.8/5.17 is better, but only marginally. I haven't tried 0.8.9/5.19. If there is any fix available I'd be interested to know it as I do a fair amount of image manipulation, in fact, RISC OS is my preferred platform, due to familiarity and the intuitive GUI. George -- george greenfield _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
