Re: [cadcdev-tiki] Thread::create weirdness

[Atani <at...@at...>]

On 6/5/2006, "Dan Potter" <ba...@al...> wrote:
>It's one of the announced ones: Donk. I've been working on it under
>Tiki/OSX for the most part, and just ported it over to the DC. The
>biggest problem I had actually was the lack of frame rate throttling
>(I had it running at 30fps on OSX). Doesn't matter so much in the
>long run since I'm planning to fix it so it runs at 60fps. It's very
>old code and has some issues with animation vs frame rates.

I havent seen any information on this one yet...  But cool that you are
still working on DC stuff sometimes :)

>
>I was actually kinda surprised at first that the hodge-podge all
>worked. :D I mean we've got Tiki, running on top of KGL, running on
>top of the PVR functions, with a messy mix of Newlib/pthreads and

Yeah it is nice that it just works :)
>
>Haven't hit audio at all yet.

Good luck with that, it still needs a bit of work in Tiki for anything
but OSX from my experiences so far :(

>
>I would like to keep plxcompat personally. I have a *lot* of code
>that makes use of plx_* calls that I'd like to keep around. I think

Sure, thats why I posted it here, see what people think of consolidating
the plx_* calls into a more Tiki like call, which can be platform
overriden (specifically DC)

>it's also nice because it's very raw (and on the DC, very fast) but
>still platform agnostic. We could rename the plx_* calls into Tiki
>calls somewhere, and then make plxcompat just aliases for those. On
>the DC it could all call down into parallax still. I think maybe
>that's what you were implying above, right?

Thats exactly what I was after :)

Mike