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by SarahWalker
Wed 20 Mar, 2024 8:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: A couple of questions about the emulated 3dfx performance
Replies: 2
Views: 219

Re: A couple of questions about the emulated 3dfx performance

So, the first question is, is the interpreter actually trying to emulate the real hardware speed, or is it just a coincidence on my machine (at least the control thread is often, but not always maxed out, but the render threads almost never are)? Total coincidence I'm afraid. There's no attempt at ...
by SarahWalker
Wed 13 Apr, 2022 7:20 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Dynarec issues
Replies: 22
Views: 11562

Re: Dynarec issues

Did you ever get a backtrace for that crash? Disabling optimisation for exec_recompiler() will absolutely kill performance, it's the dispatcher for the recompiler and definitely needs to be optimised!
by SarahWalker
Thu 10 Feb, 2022 7:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Dev version (vNext) performance difference with v17?
Replies: 2
Views: 2148

Re: Dev version (vNext) performance difference with v17?

Release builds are/have been built with profile optimisations. Dev builds are not. That would account for much if not all of the difference.
by SarahWalker
Tue 08 Feb, 2022 7:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: About OS/2 and the Matrox Millennium and cursor.
Replies: 2
Views: 2066

Re: About OS/2 and the Matrox Millennium and cursor.

Please do NOT ask for ROMs here...
by SarahWalker
Tue 18 Jan, 2022 9:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: FPU emulation
Replies: 4
Views: 5646

Re: FPU emulation

I'd be amazed if anyone saw spreadsheets with noticeable errors, but that's the general sentiment, yes. PCem's FPU emulation is for entertainment purposes only, it won't pass those kinds of diagnostics and don't try to do anything mission critical on it.
by SarahWalker
Sun 16 Jan, 2022 8:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Printing from PCEM
Replies: 3
Views: 2208

Re: Printing from PCEM

PCem V17 has no printer support.
by SarahWalker
Sun 16 Jan, 2022 4:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Running PCem emulation in GPU
Replies: 6
Views: 4245

Re: Running PCem emulation in GPU

On a more constructive note, the only other thing I can think of that would actually fit a vaguely GPU-like workload is audio filter emulation. But that's probably still better off done on the CPU, kicked off to another thread.
by SarahWalker
Sun 16 Jan, 2022 4:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Running PCem emulation in GPU
Replies: 6
Views: 4245

Re: Running PCem emulation in GPU

CPU emulation on the GPU is impractical on so many levels, similar to the "make the CPU emulation multithreaded" idea that refuses to die.
by SarahWalker
Sun 16 Jan, 2022 9:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Running PCem emulation in GPU
Replies: 6
Views: 4245

Re: Running PCem emulation in GPU

I had been vaguely pondering the idea of running the Voodoo emulation as a compute shader. Might be unworkable, but possibly worth considering for some point in the distant future.
by SarahWalker
Sat 18 Dec, 2021 8:08 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: MichaelJManley taking over as PCem maintainer
Replies: 82
Views: 51525

ANNOUNCEMENT: MichaelJManley taking over as PCem maintainer

I'm pleased to announce that MichealJManley is taking over as the maintainer of PCem. While I'll still be around to a degree, Michael will taking over day to day development, and will decide the future direction of the project.
by SarahWalker
Sun 06 Jun, 2021 5:12 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Quick question about double word mode on virge
Replies: 2
Views: 2766

Re: Quick question about double word mode on virge

Because I haven't modified the blitter or video engine for it yet. Hence the TODOs in vid_s3_virge.c.
by SarahWalker
Fri 21 May, 2021 3:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Age of Empires 1 graphical glitches on v.17 / MacM1
Replies: 8
Views: 5274

Re: Age of Empires 1 graphical glitches on v.17 / MacM1

Can you reproduce this bug on an x86 build? It may well be an ARM-specific bug.
by SarahWalker
Mon 17 May, 2021 7:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tandy Deskmate
Replies: 3
Views: 2010

Re: Tandy Deskmate

Having never actually seen a Tandy 1000 in the flesh, I'd always assumed the keyboard was like the XT keyboard in that it didn't go above F10. You learn something new every day!

Opened https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem/issues/7 to track this.
by SarahWalker
Sat 15 May, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Hash for Downloads
Replies: 3
Views: 2272

Re: Hash for Downloads

Huh. Learn something new every day.

SHA256 for PCemV17Linux.tar.gz should be 5b24cb5ce886ed53232385f46594146ba3f7d7eecda90f82892b2dce1cb2f1a4
by SarahWalker
Sat 15 May, 2021 8:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Networking on Linux host, other than Slirp?
Replies: 3
Views: 2329

Re: Networking on Linux host, other than Slirp?

Sorry, just looked at the code and PCAP is currently only supported in Windows builds.
by SarahWalker
Fri 14 May, 2021 6:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Hash for Downloads
Replies: 3
Views: 2272

Re: Hash for Downloads

marcello42 wrote: Thu 13 May, 2021 1:04 pm I was trusting enough to install the program with root privileges
Why?
by SarahWalker
Mon 26 Apr, 2021 7:35 am
Forum: Patches
Topic: [Patch] Full macOS / Mac OS X support
Replies: 8
Views: 14793

Re: [Patch] Full macOS / Mac OS X support

kyr0 wrote: Sat 24 Apr, 2021 8:38 am V15, V16 and recently V17 has been ported.

Here is the GitHub org and community: https://github.com/PCemOnMac
Glad to see this is still going, but any plans to merge back to mainline?
by SarahWalker
Mon 26 Apr, 2021 7:34 am
Forum: Patches
Topic: [Patch] Full macOS / Mac OS X support
Replies: 8
Views: 14793

Re: [Patch] Full macOS / Mac OS X support

Apologies for slack moderating, offending post has been removed and idiot has been banned.
by SarahWalker
Wed 21 Apr, 2021 9:19 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Building on PowerPC
Replies: 5
Views: 4017

Re: Building on PowerPC

What PowerPC platform are you thinking of anyway? It's been obsolete on the desktop for a long time.
by SarahWalker
Wed 21 Apr, 2021 6:31 am
Forum: Development
Topic: Building on PowerPC
Replies: 5
Views: 4017

Re: Building on PowerPC

Won't work - PCem would need quite a lot of changes to work on a big endian CPU, and given that PowerPC is effectively dead it doesn't seem worth the effort.
by SarahWalker
Mon 19 Apr, 2021 4:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: PCem Ubuntu lagging
Replies: 9
Views: 4355

Re: PCem Ubuntu lagging

Stop constantly bumping your own threads.
by SarahWalker
Mon 05 Apr, 2021 3:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future sound card musings
Replies: 48
Views: 26688

Re: Future sound card musings

Siggy12 wrote: Sat 03 Apr, 2021 8:08 am Please SarahWalker Add emulation of MPU401 board so that we can link it on MUNT.
I've made it very clear that I'm not interested. Stop asking.
by SarahWalker
Fri 26 Mar, 2021 7:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: 86box, PCem-X, PCem-experimental and PCem-unofficial
Replies: 10
Views: 41758

Re: 86box, PCem-X, PCem-experimental and PCem-unofficial

Don't care. This is the PCem forum, not for any other emulator.
by SarahWalker
Fri 26 Mar, 2021 7:32 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future graphics card emulation
Replies: 112
Views: 197241

Re: Future graphics card emulation

Given that you decided to make your first and at that point only post a request for stuff, I felt a little snark was in order.

Particularly as your request for the Trio3D suggests you didn't actually read this thread before posting.
by SarahWalker
Thu 25 Mar, 2021 10:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future graphics card emulation
Replies: 112
Views: 197241

Re: Future graphics card emulation

No you may not
by SarahWalker
Wed 17 Mar, 2021 7:36 am
Forum: General
Topic: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Replies: 2
Views: 2182

Re: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

No idea.
by SarahWalker
Fri 05 Mar, 2021 7:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future sound card musings
Replies: 48
Views: 26688

Re: Future sound card musings

Life's tough sometimes.
by SarahWalker
Wed 03 Mar, 2021 7:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future sound card musings
Replies: 48
Views: 26688

Re: Future sound card musings

It's not something I have any desire to do.
by SarahWalker
Sun 28 Feb, 2021 5:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future sound card musings
Replies: 48
Views: 26688

Re: Future sound card musings

3. On adding to PCem the emulation of MT-32 (and siblings, with the presumed requirement of Bring Your Own ROMs), would such an effort be tantamount to a duplication of effort relative to MUNT? Yes. Either you'd be bringing basically the entirety of MUNT into the PCem source tree, or you'd be re-im...