[DogParkList] Re: MacDopplerPRO and PearPC
Don Agro
dagro at dogparksoftware.com
Wed Nov 24 04:50:55 EST 2004
On 24-Nov-04, at 4:38 AM, Don Agro wrote:
>
> On 23-Nov-04, at 4:58 PM, Stuart Williams wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to let you know I had the MacDoppler 5 minute demo
>> running in
>> PearPC on my Pentium 4 1.6GHz Windows XP machine. It was running a bit
>> sluggish, however, because I was using the G3 CVS release of the
>> emulator.
>> I'm hoping to migrate to the G4 altivec release, which should
>> hopefully
>> speed up some of the programs I'm running under the emulated OS X.
>
> That's interesting !
>
> I hear that the current release is about 1/40th the speed in PPC
> emulation - so a 1 GHz PC should perform like a 25 MHz PPC without
> graphics acceleration or Altivec pipelining.
>
> I am amazed that MacDopplerPRO will run at all !
>
> MacDopplerPRO does a speed check when it starts up and throttles back
> some of it's graphics and calculations accordingly.
>
>> Just thought I'd let you know it was possible to run it in Windows
>> through
>> a fully emulated virtual system... I'll run it a few times tonight and
>> make sure all the features are working (excluding rig control and
>> antenna
>> steering, of course). Thanks!
>
> Let me know if 3D works.
>
> Thanks,
>
>> 73
>> Stuart VE3SWF
Here is a link to PearPC
<http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html>
73 Don Agro VE3VRW
D o g P a r k S o f t w a r e L t d .
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