Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-07 Thread Wolf
Hi, When I asked about java I am aware of 2 versions or java on RPi, > there is the freeware java v7 which it seems you have installed > as I have and there is oracle java v7 which I read somewhere > handled floating point numbers better. I will try it later. As Marcos has pointed out, it

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-07 Thread Graeme Gregory
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, at 03:40 PM, Wolf wrote: > > > > Thank you. It's in the non-free component of the Raspbian repositories. > > I just installed it, and SMSQmulator runs remarkably faster. I tested > > the BogoMIPS (Raspberry Pi 2): > > > > SMSQmulator 7216: > > > >5.50, 5.57, 5.53, 5.14,

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-07 Thread Wolf
Thank you. It's in the non-free component of the Raspbian repositories. I just installed it, and SMSQmulator runs remarkably faster. I tested the BogoMIPS (Raspberry Pi 2): SMSQmulator 7216: 5.50, 5.57, 5.53, 5.14, 5.58... SMSQmulator 8216: 5.62, 5.62, 5.56, 5.06, 5.64... I

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-07 Thread Wolf
Hi, (...) It was a substantial optimization. I do not know if it works for armv6 which is original Pi. Oh yeah, doubling the speed certainly is an optimization! Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-07 Thread Graeme Gregory
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, at 06:34 PM, Marcos Cruz wrote: > En/Je/On 2016-02-07 16:40, Wolf escribió / skribis / wrote : > > > >SMSQmulator 8216: > > > > > > 5.62, 5.62, 5.56, 5.06, 5.64... > > > I wouldn't have thought this it would make such a big difference. > > Me neither. It seems Oracle

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-07 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2016-02-07 16:40, Wolf escribió / skribis / wrote : > >SMSQmulator 8216: > > > > 5.62, 5.62, 5.56, 5.06, 5.64... > I wouldn't have thought this it would make such a big difference. Me neither. It seems Oracle Java 8 is 200% faster than openjdk 7 on Raspberry Pi. > I regularly test

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-06 Thread Derek Stewart
Hi, I use SMSQmulator on a Fujitsu Celcius H700 Core i7, with 4Gb ram, using Linux with Java 8. The whole system runs perfect. The only problem I have is the screen resolution of the hardware is too high, so I have double the screen window, which solves this. I have a Pi B & Pi B+, which I

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-06 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2016-02-05 21:54, Norman Dunbar escribió / skribis / wrote : > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81=101543 it > looks like oracle java 8 has been installed in Raspbian since the 15th > Feb 2015 release. Thank you. It's in the non-free component of the Raspbian

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-06 Thread matrassyl
Thanks very helpful. Cheers -Original Message- From: Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> To: ql-users <ql-us...@q-v-d.com>; matrassyl <matras...@aol.com> Sent: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 21:59 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keybo

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-05 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2016-02-05 15:23, Wolfgang Lenerz escribió / skribis / wrote : > in general it's best to use the latest version of java. The JIT has been > improving from version to version, generally making the latest versions > the fastest. I still have to investigate how to install Oracle Java 8 on

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
And this, from 2014, shows how to install Oracle Java 8. On a Pi. http://www.rpiblog.com/2014/03/installing-oracle-jdk-8-on-raspberry-pi.html. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-05 Thread matrassyl
Duncan -Original Message- From: Marcos Cruz <q...@programandala.net> To: ql-users <ql-us...@q-v-d.com> Sent: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:16 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface) En/Je/On 2016-02-05 15:23, Wolfgang Len

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-05 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2016-02-05 04:04, matras...@aol.com escribió / skribis / wrote : > Which version of Java have you installed? java version "1.7.0_95" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.4) (7u95-2.6.4-1~deb7u1+rpi1) OpenJDK Zero VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode) > Have you overclocked the RPi2 and

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-05 Thread matrassyl
rs <ql-us...@q-v-d.com> Sent: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 15:21 Subject: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface) En/Je/On 2016-02-04 09:29, matras...@aol.com escribió / skribis / wrote : > Spent a bit of this morning setting up SMSQmulator on the RP

[Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

2016-02-04 Thread Marcos Cruz
En/Je/On 2016-02-04 09:29, matras...@aol.com escribió / skribis / wrote : > Spent a bit of this morning setting up SMSQmulator on the RPi 2. It > seems to be usable so far. Yes, it's fast enough to be usable. It's the only QL emulator I use, I never succeded in compiling or executing uQLx-arm on