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From: adrissmn@gopher.science.wayne.edu (Avi Drissman)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.emulators.apple2
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Subject: Random Fast Eddie thoughts
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Date: 25 Dec 1996 00:05:43 GMT
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Organization: Wayne State University
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Yesterday I downloaded the Fast Eddie beta, and tried out a few thing.
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All this is on a PowerMac 7100/80AV through the AV video out.
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I unpacked FE and read the directions. I have a ROM 1 so I decided to get
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the rom images from it. I moved the file over to the Mac, and FE gave me a
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screen of blinking crud. Try again. Nope. I checked the file, and it was
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essentially all zeros. Hmmm?
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OK, now I try saving each bank of rom in a file, and catenating them on
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the mac. It looks fine, but FE still isn't happy. Damn. Finally I got sick
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of trying to extract the roms, so I ripped a copy of the ROM 3 roms out of
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GuS (shut up!). And FE booted.
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Sound is apparently turned off until you explicitly turn it on (or I might
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have broken the auto-sound-detect feature). Sound _does_ slow it down
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considerably, and the speed of FE isn't too great to begin with. (More on
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that later.)
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Since I already play with GuS, the only unique feature in FE is the sound.
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So I popped in the FTA's X-Mas demo. Nope, died, but I don't think it runs
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on a rom3. Hmmm.
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Pom's disk 49 didn't want to boot, but 50 and 51 didn't care. The music
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sounded nearly identical to my real GS nearby, but was about 2-3 times
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slower, turning the songs essentially into dirges.
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Noise Tracker was next, and I got to the main screen. Then either it froze
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up or I got too impatient, so I restarted. (BTW, there's a bug in FE I
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found there--if you had a HD disk formatted for 800K (like I did a lot)
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and you put it in FE, FE dies real quick.)
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Diversitune didn't really like FE either.
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I then mounted the 6M disk image I use for GuS, and booted FE into System
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6 without a problem. A bit of work needs to be done with the boot. The
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time estimate--the thermometer--was constantly too fast or slow. Then I
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ran One Arm Battle. With sound, it kills GuS, so I tried it with FE. It
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works, but is horribly slow. Turning off sound speeds it up a bit, but GuS
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is far faster.
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So I decided to test the speeds of FE and GuS. I used a program called
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"CPU Speed" 1.2 by a Robert Claney. On my real GS, it's fairly accurate,
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and the speed figures vary in the hundredths place.
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On FE, the speed reported was wildly varying, bouncing all over from about
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1.6mhz to 3.5mhz. In GuS, the speed hovered in the 19mhz range,
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occaisionally dipping to 16mhz. It must be emphasized that these
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measurements _are not real_, because emulators really can only be tested
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under load, but they serve as an interesting comparison between emulators.
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For the record, FE was version beta 1 and GuS was 1.0d3e74.
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Avi
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copyright 1996, all rights reserved.
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--
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Avi Drissman Preferred address: drissman@acm.org
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+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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http://www.science.wayne.edu/~adrissmn/
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And we'll have fun, fun, fun till my daddy takes the keyboard away...
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