openMSX 32bit support end - what are your thoughts? | MSX Resource Center (Página 1/2)

Paladin (747)

25-10-2020, 11:30

Would be nice if the recording codec would be 64-bit as well then? Although the codec is downloaded separately, there is a link here?

Por Bodhi1969

Expert (93)

25-10-2020, 11:47

Vampier wrote:

With the release of openMSX 16.0 I am going to stop compiling the daily and release builds of the WINDOWS 32bit version. Unless someone can come up with a really good argument against it I will stop next month. I am planning to only compile openMSX 64bit binaries for WINDOWS going forward.

Let me know any objections - and why

Well, I use the newest OpenMSX with wine and as I have also the 64bit-variant installed the 64bit-OpenMSX works fine for me, but there may be a lot of peopele who just have 32bit Wine installed because it is recommended for stability reasons.

Por Pencioner

Scribe (1562)

25-10-2020, 14:06

Why do you use Wine for openMSX if you can have it in Linux natively?

Por Bodhi1969

Expert (93)

26-10-2020, 14:14

Pencioner wrote:

Why do you use Wine for openMSX if you can have it in Linux natively?

Because up to now the newest available version on Linux Mint is 15.0. I know there will be a flatpak soon and I will definetly try this out but until now I didn´t dare to compile it myself. So maybe my advice is still to be considerated though.

Por Grauw

Ascended (10767)

26-10-2020, 14:24

But it’s not a common usage I think for a cross-platform application. And it will still run in wine-64.

Por ducasp

Paladin (680)

27-10-2020, 02:11

Vampier wrote:

With the release of openMSX 16.0 I am going to stop compiling the daily and release builds of the WINDOWS 32bit version. Unless someone can come up with a really good argument against it I will stop next month. I am planning to only compile openMSX 64bit binaries for WINDOWS going forward.

Let me know any objections - and why

Is it troublesome or time consuming to support? I personally have one or two older computers running 32 bits Windows because they are old and like to use them for retro gaming, wouldn't be the end of the world as I have other computers running Windows and Linux 64 bits, but I think that some people still use old machines with a Core 2 Duo as an example running 32 bits systems just for old stuff and some emulator ls. But sure enough it is a corner case and probably few (if anyone) will complain about it, I know I wouldn't being able to use 64 bits OSs

Por Wolverine_nl

Paragon (1160)

27-10-2020, 13:03

I have no problems with that, I use a virtual win XP machine for some tricky stuff, but I haven't used a OpenMSX 32bit on it since years now.

Por Vampier

Prophet (2412)

28-10-2020, 02:44

WindowsXP support has been dropped a while ago - I got tired of installing a massive directX library just to use a few components. As for compiling openMSX on linux - would it help if I would provide a script that does that for you? I have a script that just pulls the current source and compiles it. If there are any tutorials out there to create flatpacks I'll give that a try too (I am on Ubuntu myself)

Por Manuel

Ascended (19462)

28-10-2020, 07:48

Compiling on Linux is pretty straightforward: install the developer packages of the dependencies en run make install. It's described in the Compilation Guide on the website.

Flatpak is on flathub, I think.

Por jepmsx

Master (253)

28-10-2020, 09:26

Oh, I didn't know it was in flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.openmsx.openMSX). Great!

I tried to compile it in my Gentoo Linux machine without success. Knowing that there is a flatpak binary, I'll try it.