Date   : Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:18:53 +0000
From   : mlist@... (Steven Flintham)
Subject: Is there a 65Tube-style BBC emulator available for

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 22:56 +0100, Rick Murray wrote:
> Can you not press F12, go to the RISC OS command line, and run it from 
> there? TaskWindow is only really good for compiling and stuff where you 
> want a singletasking program to 'communicate' with the desktop (i.e. 
> Throwback). For everything else, I found it a bit, well... slow. :-)

I could, but I like the safety net of being able to kill the taskwindow
if my program crashes and locks up the emulated BBC. Or am I overlooking
something there? Admittedly rebooting the emulated RPC is not a major
chore, but I like to minimise the annoyance of crashes.

Apart from the inelegance of using rpcemu so I can run 65Tube, I must
admit it's not that bad a solution, even with the taskwindow. But the
thought of the speed and convenience I could get with a native
65Tube-style emulator is tempting. However, as I've noted in another
post, it looks as though such an emulator is just that bit more work
than I thought.

Also, although I'm using a desktop PC right now, I can envision wanting
to work on this pet project on my netbook and I suspect that rpcemu is
not going to be very battery-friendly, since it's just sat at 100% CPU
all the time.

Steve