Re: [B2-devel] SheepShaver and SDL

[Gwenole B. <gb...@di...>]

Hi,

> Just a wild thought... Wouldn't be useful if SheepShaver were using SDL as
> graphics subsystem? Recently PearPC guys employed that library in their
> project and users were pretty happy with it (performance wise).

Performance wise, our graphics subsystem is performing quite well already
[*]. Though plain x86 could benefit from SDL/Hermes/x86 blitters. In my
opinion, at 30 Hz, it doesn't seem that slow.

[*] If it seems slow to you, can you make sure you are running local so
that Xshm can be used too? Besides, could you try a build configured with
--disable-vosf. If this causes faster graphics on Linux/x86 (at the same
frameskip level), then there is a problem.

> It would also make SheepShaver a little bit more portable (eg. to
> Windows - if anyone wanted to perform such a noble task).

Indeed, SDL for portability can be interesting. And as for a Windows port, 
I still don't have any suitable system to host that either.

> How difficult would be implementing of SDL then? I'm wondering if I would be
> able to help somehow (5 year experience in Windows/C++ programming, modest
> experience in Linux programming, no clue about Mac programming). If so, what
> source files should I look at first?
> 
> Jerzu
> 
> 
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