Re: [Atari800-users] Removal of win32 (directx backend, not to be confused with SDL one)

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 09:41, <zy...@po...> wrote:

> When I am thinking of the current "market" with the emulators, I see the
> following (this is, of course, subjective).
>
I basically agree with your assessment, however there's yet one more
group:  Non-Windows Retro Gamers on Retro Hardware. This includes all the
Amiga, DC, Atari Falcon/TT/FireBee, WinCE etc ports.

In my eyes, this is one of Atari800's strengths -- it still runs nicely on
machines with clock rate below 100 MHz, if one doesn't insist on having all
the fancy features enabled. For example FireBee users are really happy
because their ColdFire (somewhat) Atari compatible machine got heaps of
games to play thanks to Atari800.

Then of course the interesting question is how many of these ports are
still alive / maintained and I fear that except for my effort all of them
are dead (see my callout in the other email). Also, the argument "Why can't
we use their SDL forks?" is very valid. In the Atari Falcon/TT/FireBee case
the answer is still performance (this definitely applies to sound
processing but also to screen handling to some extent).

So what I would like to do is to continuously make efforts towards merging
Falcon and SDL backends, basically do what Petr mentioned earlier: as soon
as some Atari800 backend has decent SDL support, drop it in favour of SDL.

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