Dear #BeebEm fans; what's the maximum speed you can achieve when setting the emulator to x100 (menu...Speed...Fixed Speed...100)?
Mine is x60 during computation and x73 during program idle.
I'm running it on a 5GHz AMD Ryzen 5 and I'd expect it to top out at 100 easily, but obviously not.
Added the #BBC emulator #BeebEm to Steam so I can play #Blockbusters Gold Run with ease. Still crap at it mind ...
Struggling with getting #Econet to work in #BeebEm #retrocomputing - eventually, I want to connect the emulator to my #PiEconetBridge with some βrealβ machines (#Electron, #BBCmaster)
Okay, I made the thing without instructions for compiling on ARM compile on ARM.
(This screenshot is actually from the version I'm building in parallel on an x86 system for comparative purposes.)
@toychicken @bbcmicrobot @rem And was half of that 10 minutes going to be the time to load it from cassette? :-) (I remember the #BBCMicro's cassette motor control relay whose click was occasionally used for sound effects by games... And more recently, I was amused at the #Beebem emulator's disk-drive sound effect when loading something from a virtual floppy.)
because it seems i'm actually doing a thing with it, i've moved beebem for unix to https://github.com/beebem-unix/beebem
and just like that... https://github.com/dominichamon/beebem/tree/cmake builds and installs.
and as a neat side-effect, it runs on OSX (yes, even M1)!
i need some more testing to check all the options, and i'd appreciate help, but yaaaay.
I've been asked to give a talk on #beebem that I wrote in ~1994; I'm doing archaeology on my own filesystems; a path in a tar:
-rw-rw-rw- 1000/users 219 1994-10-16 21:06 gallifrey-misc/offtardis/backup/A440back/BEEBEM/H/beebmem
so that's a file I wrote in 1994 probably on my ARM3 Acorn A440, that was copied onto my 1st PC (~94), then my Alpha ('tardis' ~97), then my Dual athlon (Gallifrey), then has followed around a few more in between.
