Oricutron minimal specs

[Dbug]

Does anyone know what is the minimal machine that can run Oricutron, both on Linux and Windows versions?

Does Oricutron run on a Windows 9x/XP machine, or does it require Windows Vista/7/2000, or even higher maybe?

What about CPU and memory, would it run on a 32bit Pentium with 512 megs of ram, or does it need something like 4 gigs of ram and 2ghz?

[ibisum]

I ported it to GP2X and Open Pandora machines, neither of which had anywhere near the lowest of those specs, and it runs fine. The use of SDL means it'll run pretty well on most low-spec systems.

[Dbug]

Sure, but that does not guarantee that internally SDL 2 is not using some API that is not available on Windows 95 for example.

[ibisum]

SDL(1.2) supports Win95 just fine. Read the Makefile.

[iss]

Hm, I forgot how things can run sloooow

Here is Panasonic CF-48
CPU : Pentium-III 1GHz
RAM : 640MB
OS's : dual boot: Linux Fedora 27 32 bit and Windows 7 32 bit

Oricutron compiles and runs at ~35-40 FPS and the audio is bad.
With F6 (speed boost) runs up to 130 FPS.

IMO, it will run on Windows 95 too.

[ibisum]

Nice one, iss.

Did you use a plain fresh clone of the Oricutron and SDL repo's, just out of curiosity? I remember the audio glitching being an issue, but I also remember it was fixed at some point - which version of SDL?

[Dbug]

Hm, I forgot how things can run sloooow

Here is Panasonic CF-48
CPU : Pentium-III 1GHz
RAM : 640MB
OS's : dual boot: Linux Fedora 27 32 bit and Windows 7 32 bit

Oricutron compiles and runs at ~35-40 FPS and the audio is bad.
With F6 (speed boost) runs up to 130 FPS.

I guess "32 bit Windows 7 with 1GHz CPU and 640MB RAM" is probably a fair "minimum specs" machine, and "2Ghz CPU or above" would probably give a constant 50fps with decent audio"?

[iss]

I guess "32 bit Windows 7 with 1GHz CPU and 640MB RAM" is probably a fair "minimum specs" machine, and "2Ghz CPU or above" would probably give a constant 50fps with decent audio"?

Indeed, even Windows XP can run faster. Actually I don't know why the FPS can't reach 50Hz, IIRC Oricutron used to run just fine on this antique.

[ibisum]

Yeah, I'd like to understand the reason for the degraded performance on Win 95 ..

[Xeron]

Oricutron was largely developed on an 800MHz PowerPC G4 Amiga, so it really shouldn't be very taxing...

[ThomH]

Oricutron was largely developed on an 800MHz PowerPC G4 Amiga, so it really shouldn't be very taxing...

Peter Gordon has said: "I wrote an emulator for it entirely from scratch, just for something to do on my train journey to work". Was there a portable PowerPC Amiga? I guess he might have installed MorphOS on an iBook or something, which is close enough.

[Xeron]

It was written on an AmigaOne XE G4 when I was home, with large parts of it written on a Windows laptop on the train.

Edit: That's some expert level comment digging

[Dbug]

While I've everybody here: I remember I asked that a long time ago but can't find the answers: Is there some parameter that can be used to disable or hide the bottom panel of Oricutron with the speed percentage, FPS and the four icons with the floppy drive and tape?

[ThomH]

It was written on an AmigaOne XE G4 when I was home, with large parts of it written on a Windows laptop on the train.

Edit: That's some expert level comment digging

I had not realised that you were you!

But, no, otherwise, I just happen to be a reader of The Register with a bias towards any mention of old computers and emulation. So a quick search for 'Oric' in the articles list quickly refreshed my memory.

[ibisum]

disable or hide the bottom panel

Its called the statusbar, and its state is toggled with the F5 key. You can disable it completely by changing line 1145 of machine.c to:

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oric->statusbar_mode = STATUSBARMODE_NONE;

EDIT: I added the --nostatusbar command line argument to my fork of Oricutron, just for you DBug .. get it here, or wait in case Peter Gordon wants to merge the PR I made for this ..

https://github.com/seclorum/oricutron