[DogParkList] Re: MacDopplerPRO and PearPC

[Stuart Williams]

Hello,

I managed to find a bit of spare time tonight to breifly mess around. I 
took two snapshots and uploaded them to my gallery (they are available 
at http://www.planetcybo.com/gallery/pearpc if anyone is interested in 
taking a peek). Unfortunately, I was unable to get the 3D mode 
working... only a white, empty box would appear in the place of the 3D 
globe. The program seems to run relatively smoothly after it is fully 
loaded.

The testing was done in the G3 standard and SDL CVS builds, I'll be sure 
to soon test the G4 Altivec CVS build. Hope some find this 
interesting... thanks!

73
Stuart VE3SWF

Stuart Williams wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Was a bit busy last night, I'll be able to check today after school.
>
> With the PearPC release 0.4pre, speeds are down to 1/20th of the real 
> CPU... which is a pretty good improvement. Hopefully future releases 
> of PearPC will speed it up even more. I'll definately check 3D 
> tonight. Thanks!
>
> 73
> Stuart VE3SWF
>
> Don Agro wrote:
>
>> Hi Stuart,
>>
>> On 23-Nov-04, at 4:58 PM, Stuart Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Don,
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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