Re: [MiNT] C++

[Ole <ole@monochrom.net>]

Am Freitag, den 18.10.2013, 09:59 +0200 schrieb "J. F. Lemaire" 
<jflemaire@skynet.be>:

> Am I reading this correctly? You've ported Enigma to the Atari? And
> you didn't find it useful to mention this to anybody? Are you crazy?
> :-) That's one of the things I've been planning to do since I got the
> Firebee!

I've mentioned it in the internal Firebee Forum. Porting is bad word 
for
this, I've compiled it ;)

> Does it run at all? Can we try it?

There was a bug in SDL back then which prevented the mouse to work 
correctly,
I'm pretty sure this was fixed when I was in contact with P.M. and V.R. 
because of
Grafx2 for ColdFire. That also included an perfomance inside the 
SDL-GEM Event Loop.

It would be wort again to check it out again, just to see how it 
performs now.

However, I did a little bit profiling (just collection time stamps..) 
and followed
the event loop inside Enigma - and it had a million of calls during 
each poll for events...

I don't know exactly how bad the performance was, but here is my 
posting from the firebee forum,
looks like the mouse event issue fix inside SDL could have changed my 
posting back then:

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Today I ported enigma to FreeMiNT.

It looks good and runs - to slow. ( with an 1.6 Ghz single core 
Aranym-jit ).
http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/

Animations are fine - but everything related to user interaction is 
slow as hell. (mouse movement with graphical cursor, keyboard input, 
mouse click etc.). (Maybe it can also be improved when not running with 
window mode - it has an different event loop then? ? dunno...)

If that part within SDL can be optimized (alot) by someone - we would 
probably have possibility to publish some more games...

some screenshots attached.


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Greets,
Ole