Re: Re-Introducing the First, and Fully Functional, Lisa Emulator

Got it started up ok, but crashes on disk insert under XP. I will try the OS X (PPC) version next. I do hope you can release the source soon...

Ken

Hex Star wrote:

> By more modern machines are you implying my mac mini is not modern? :-/
> Anywho it is quite fast once it gets past that point for me as well...that's
> weird that that image won't load for you when it loads fine for me...maybe
> this works better: http://i11.tinypic.com/2nh2quw.png ?
>
> On 1/25/07, Ray Arachelian <ray_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hex Star wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok so I found a copy of a lisa rom but found that whenever I try to
> > > install lisa office system I get this:
> > > http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/8007/noiwontinstall6mi.png is this
> > > the catch-22 bug that's mentioned on the download page? If so how are
> > > we supposed to actually use this emulator and install lisa office
> > > system? Do you have a image we could use that already has lisa office
> > > system installed since you said that images with it already installed
> > > work fine? Sending this to the lisalist as well in case anyone on the
> > > list knows of a solution as well...thanks! :-)
> > I'm unable to load that png at the moment, however if it's telling you
> > that it can't write to the profile drive, that's the one. I
> > unfortunately can't make disk images with Lisa Office pre-installed for
> > download as that would be a copyright violation, sorry.
> >
> > You'll have to wait until the next release, at which point most of these
> > bugs will be fixed.
> >
> > > also...I'm running a mac mini intel core duo 1.66ghz with 2gb ram and
> > > Mac OS X 10.4.8 and the intel build of this emulator and yet it
> > > bounces in the dock a long time before it finally completely
> > > loads...anyone else notice that/know why it takes so long to load even
> > > when it's compiled for the native architecture? thanks! :-)
> >
> > It's spending a lot of time building the images (xpm's) from wxStrings
> > that are used for the skin and the animation. It does the same on the
> > other platforms (except windows where it uses bmp's instead). It's
> > built on wxWidgets, so there's an extra layer of API's in the way, but
> > even so, it's fairly fast once it gets started - at least on more modern
> > machines.
> >
> >
> > >
> >

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