VRPC on Linux with WINE - comp.sys.acorn.misc

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Timothy Baldwin

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More options 19 Mar, 00:38

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From: Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwi...@members.leeds.ac.uk>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:38:04 +0000

Local: Wed 19 Mar 2008 00:38

Subject: Re: VRPC on Linux with WINE

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In message <lsv*yu...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Theo Markettos

<theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> cfer...@freeremoveuk.com.invalid wrote:
>> How does this compare in speed etc with 'RPCemu' v0.7 run on Linux?
>> http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/

> I don't have a full RISC OS disc image to test with RPCemu, but a very
> quick test running TwinWorld at the opening screen (ie playing the game
> but not moving the player around, just watching things animate) gave:

> RPCemu (SVN 124) with no sound: 13.5 MIPS
> (I don't know if sound works or it's turned off)

> VRPC 1.3 with sound: 44 MIPS

That isn't a useful benchmark as is not necessarily running flat out. for a
measure of CPU emulation speed, "REPEAT UNTIL FALSE" at the BASIC prompt
would be more useful.

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