[Freemint-list] Debian/FreeMiNT ?

[Mark Duckworth]

I believe aniplay has an option somewhere called D2D or something like
that where it will chunk the file from disk.  It certainly has this for
audio as I can play a 30MB wave file on an STe which doesn't have that
much ram.

Thanks,
Mark


On 10/12/2016 11:48 AM, Jason Fergus wrote:
> Only reason I asked is because I was trying to play an episode of He-Man
> on my Falcon, and it tried throwing the entire thing into memory and
> Aniplay crashed, and I've seen other people do such things, so was
> wondering if it was because I didn't have virtual memory/swap enabled.
>  Could have sworn I at least saw a vmm module (enabling swap is probably
> the wrong term here.)
> 
> On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 07:42 +1000, Miro Kropáček wrote:
>> On the same token, you can take a look at
>> Outside: http://seimet.de/atari/files/outs351.lzh, it includes source
>> code as well but AFAIK it doesn't work with FreeMiNT (a conflict of
>> interest :-)).
>>
>> On 11 October 2016 at 07:39, Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek at gmail.com
>> <mailto:miro.kropacek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11 October 2016 at 01:54, Jason Fergus <leech at thefnords.org
>>> <mailto:leech at thefnords.org>> wrote:
>>>> Though that brings up a slightly off topic thing, how do you get
>>>> something like a swap file to work in MiNT?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You don't. :-) There was a patch in one of the prehistoric folders (I
>>> think it doesn't exist anymore but you can certainly find it in old
>>> .tar.gz releases) that enabled a swap partition but it wasn't very
>>> clean and never got into the main tree.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
>>> http://mikro.atari.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
>> http://mikro.atari.org
> 
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