Welcome Back Samuel!

[Thomas Morris]

Hello Samuel,


Thank you for your nice verbose response :))

Maybe we can setup some kind of Paypal Donation program for you and other
MOL devs to help in this. Also, email me privately about driver docs and
such...

magnetic


On 05/17/2005, you wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 12:11:35PM -0500, Thomas Morris wrote:
>> Hello Samuel,
>> 
>> YAY! Thank you so much! I am a former executive for Genesi usa.
>> (Pegasos) You are a very talented coder and many people appreciate your
>> work. Alot of us were worried you abandoned this project. Can I ask the
>> following: 
>> 1. What is the reason Tiger doesnt work?

> Well, I haven't tried it. I suspect there might be problems with
> either:

> - the OSX side acceleration stuff (nothing to do with graphics, just
> hacks to avoid BAT register emulation overhead).

> - the bootloader (it might need some adjustments)

>> 2. Can we get better sound? i.e. less cpu usage

> Sound is quite tricky due to the hard real time requirements OS X
> imposes; I was pretty satisfied with the performance I got last
> time I worked with this subsystem though.

> I'll have a look though. Things might have changed a bit with newer
> versions of ALSA etc.

>> 3. Didnt Sven Luther discuss some ways on getting 3d working with MOL
>> with you? Is this viable?

> Well, 3d within MOL is quite tricky. There are two paths forward,

> a) replace the OSX side library with something which passes request
> through to the linux side.

> b) write drivers for a virtual 3D graphics card. (Unfortunately, the
> API is not public; at least not last time I checked.)

> c) emulate a real 3D graphics card (also tricky; it is not easy
> to get hold of specs).

> /Samuel
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