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Paragon (2042)

08-09-2007, 12:01

openMSX is compiled for i686, right? In that case it won't work on Alex's P1 MMX. (same problem "ASK" had with meisei: see meisei newspost thread)

By Manuel

Ascended (19314)

08-09-2007, 13:42

Ah, you're right, that might have to do with it. You need a Pentium Pro, but I'm not sure if P1 MMX is that.
Slotman, what kind of CPU do you have in your PC?

By nikodr

Paladin (750)

08-09-2007, 15:54

Would not it be possible to have 2 versions?One for i686 and one for the older machines?It can be done just by changing the compiler's and linker's options right?

By Manuel

Ascended (19314)

08-09-2007, 17:21

Yep, that could be possible. But it might not be worth the effort, as very little people use such old machines...

By hap

Paragon (2042)

08-09-2007, 17:28

midgets and dwarfs?
.. More significantly, openMSX would probably run too slow for comfort on them.

By nikodr

Paladin (750)

08-09-2007, 17:39

Is that the case?

There are some solutions like litepc http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html where a windows 98 system can be installed without eating up much resources and without unneeded services and stuff running in the background.

Result is a very fast and efficient windows 98 system that can be run with minimal resources.I have a pentium pro mmx laptop with 32 mbytes ram running lite98 pc windows system and i would love to try it.

Or maybe not,it may be a very stupid idea :o

By Manuel

Ascended (19314)

08-09-2007, 19:51

I think it should run fine on that laptop But you might have to set some settings to 'minimal' values to get good performance.

By Vampier

Prophet (2409)

08-09-2007, 21:57

The openMSX has just deceided that this release of openMSX will be the last release this month.

By Alex

Master (205)

10-09-2007, 23:15

Hi,

I have now also tested on my laptop (Win XP, AMD Athlon XP 2500+, 500 MB RAM, don't know which videocard) and did not experience any big issue.

I have tested:
1) c-bios MSX2 with SCC, on which I ran nemesis3 ROM.
2) MSX turbo R (FSA1GT) with SCC and MSX Audio, on which I ran SME3, Modplay and SME3 promo 2

I noticed in modplay that the samples with a lot of bass (e.g. a bass drum) sound a little bit distorted (more distored then on real machine). Don't know if this is unique for the windows version or also occurs on the linux version. Might be some kind of interference between the soft-mixing at 11 kHz by the modplayer and the soft(?) mixing by the emulator itself (at which frequency does the emulator mix?)

In SME3 promo 2 I noticed hick-ups in the animations, especially in the scroll text. Will show it on Bussum (I'll come and bring my laptop with me)

Another point is that (at least with the Turbo R+SCC+Audio configuration) I had to keep the laptop connected to the power grid and the cooling fan kept running at full speed. If I removed the cable and ran on the battery, the laptop became too slow to run the emulator.

Ps: I like catapult. It is a very convenient way to select an appropriate HW configuration and launch OpenMSX (had not yet tried it out before today)

Kind regards,
Alex

By Manuel

Ascended (19314)

11-09-2007, 16:27

Thanks for testing Alex. It would be convenient if we could discuss the things you found further on IRC. (And additionally on Bussum, if necessary.)

Oh, about the cooling fan: check your CPU load... And try decreasing your graphics settings a bit (see the Setup Guide of the manual), it should help.

About Catapult: wait until you see the new one I can tell you how to try it out on IRC as well.

PS: I hope you didn't insert an SCC extension when running Nemesis 3. (It will choose the proper mapper, which includes SCC, automatically.)