Posted By
TLC
on 2007-03-18
06:29:30
|  Re: Beta version of new emulator is now available
I made some tests today morning with the Windows port. Here are some things that I found.
-- Both ports (Linux/Windows) use about the same computing power. On this notebook (Compaq Evo N620C, Mobile P4 1.5GHz, Radeon Mobility 7500) it's slightly above 50% and sometimes goes up to 80-90% when the emulator is active. It never crashed or became jerky because of lack of more computing power, however.
-- It didn't work with openGL, it crashed (see http://coroners.no-ip.hu/ep128emu2/ep128emu2t1opengl.jpg ). I don't know if I should install something I'm not aware of the moment to have proper openGL support in XP. As far as I know, I have the latest video drivers (2005.06.07, 6.14.10.6542, installed with sp30767.exe from Compaq's support site). I may be wrong in that subject, but I couldn't find a more recent driver (Mobility drivers are supplied by the manufacturers, not ATI, and Compaq had this one).
-- The screen refresh is notably worse than in Linux (but AFAIK you're aware of this). Note that I could only test the software video output, but even the smaller screen size appeared jerky, so I'd presume there's more about this than just the video driver.
-- I used the keymap for the Hungarian layout. Some keys are not exactly at the same places as in Linux (see http://coroners.no-ip.hu/ep128emu2/ep128emu2t2keys.jpg, the keys that appear to be at wrong places are green).
-- Other than that, everything worked (I was especially surprised of the installer, which did everything just on the first try). Even the floppy emulation works more or less well; say, I encountered floppy speeders that worked, while some others didn't.
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