PearPC wish-list
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Things I would like to see in next/coming versions:
1. increased speed
2. keymapping for either eject(so you can use shutdown shortcut) or keymapping to emulate powerbutton(other shutdown shortcut)
3. working unmount/mount cd image or use of actual windows cdromdrive
4. sound
As I have 10.3 installed when I tried to update it to 10.3.4 it did its thing but at the very end it tells you to shutdown/restart. Without a way of doing that(menus are grayed out) is main reason why I would like to see either eject/powerbutton added.
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1. increased speed
2. keymapping for either eject(so you can use shutdown shortcut) or keymapping to emulate powerbutton(other shutdown shortcut)
3. working unmount/mount cd image or use of actual windows cdromdrive
4. sound
As I have 10.3 installed when I tried to update it to 10.3.4 it did its thing but at the very end it tells you to shutdown/restart. Without a way of doing that(menus are grayed out) is main reason why I would like to see either eject/powerbutton added.
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Code optimizations for the G4/G5 PowerPC arch. Better yet, a way to forgo the emulation layer if compiled under powerpc. This would essentially allow MOL but with greater portability than MOL (as with MOL you are reqd to use Linux). I dunno what it would take to rewrite the hooks to talk directly to the processor, but if emulation was deviced to emulate a G3, would it not be that difficult to rewrite to simply talk directly?
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Darwin/OSX 10.3.4
Powerbook Aluminim 15" 1.25 Ghz
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Steve
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Darwin/OSX 10.3.4
Powerbook Aluminim 15" 1.25 Ghz
-PearPC working under OSX
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My own wishlist
Firstly, I gotta say that along with probably everyone here, i'm extremely thankful PearPC even exists, and think that its a great project, and the only way to make it better is to find out what folks who use it are looking for. So, here's a few of my own suggestions for things I think should be looked at:
(Not neccessarily in priority, but more or less)
1. Better stability
2. Increased Speed
3. More device support (ie Sound, video, 2-button mice, more IDE devices, etc)
4. CDROM access in Windows (no more using .iso files)
5. Status Indicators (ie Hard Drive access, CDROM access, etc)
6. Option to use Auto-capturing of mouse/keyboard, instead of needing to click/press F12
Thats all that pops to mind at the moment.
Cheers,
Aaron
(Not neccessarily in priority, but more or less)
1. Better stability
2. Increased Speed
3. More device support (ie Sound, video, 2-button mice, more IDE devices, etc)
4. CDROM access in Windows (no more using .iso files)
5. Status Indicators (ie Hard Drive access, CDROM access, etc)
6. Option to use Auto-capturing of mouse/keyboard, instead of needing to click/press F12
Thats all that pops to mind at the moment.
Cheers,
Aaron
Re: My own wishlist
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4. CDROM access in Windows (no more using .iso files)
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There is Native CD-ROM for Windows already..Take a look at Cybermagellan's site for latest 0.3pre Builds and with Native CD-ROM Support...:D
4. CDROM access in Windows (no more using .iso files)
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There is Native CD-ROM for Windows already..Take a look at Cybermagellan's site for latest 0.3pre Builds and with Native CD-ROM Support...:D
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Re: My own wishlist
still using 0.2.0?inversation wrote:1. Better stability
2. Increased Speed
3. More device support (ie Sound, video, 2-button mice, more IDE devices, etc)
4. CDROM access in Windows (no more using .iso files)
5. Status Indicators (ie Hard Drive access, CDROM access, etc)
6. Option to use Auto-capturing of mouse/keyboard, instead of needing to click/press F12
try the 0.3pre builds that have native cd access, auto-capturing of the mouse, and they are significantly faster (~30-60% increase!!), and even emulate a G4!!!!!
by the way, i wish pearpc was faster, and may be tap to an existing nic instead of creating one for it.
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holy hell, no kidding?
The release(s) i've been testing/using have been from richard goodwin's site (http://www.richardgoodwin.com/pearpc), and best i knew have or had no windows cd support. Do you possibly have a link handy for Cybermagellan's site?
Cheers,
Aaron
The release(s) i've been testing/using have been from richard goodwin's site (http://www.richardgoodwin.com/pearpc), and best i knew have or had no windows cd support. Do you possibly have a link handy for Cybermagellan's site?
Cheers,
Aaron
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that's because he builds straight from cvs, and he doesn't apply any patches. (so there is no windows cd support).inversation wrote:holy hell, no kidding?
The release(s) i've been testing/using have been from richard goodwin's site (http://www.richardgoodwin.com/pearpc), and best i knew have or had no windows cd support. Do you possibly have a link handy for Cybermagellan's site?
Cheers,
Aaron
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ah, of course. Thanks muchly for the help, its appreciated. Hey, I finally have OSX 10.3 back up and running, and switched over to the altivec build, now that its installed. Hurrah, 900Mhz PowerPC G4! Big improvement already over the 740Mhz PowerPC G3 that was showing up in previous incarnations of 0.3pre
Cheers,
Aaron
Cheers,
Aaron
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i wish mine showed more that 700 mhz (i'm stuck with 600 g4 or 640 g3)inversation wrote:ah, of course. Thanks muchly for the help, its appreciated. Hey, I finally have OSX 10.3 back up and running, and switched over to the altivec build, now that its installed. Hurrah, 900Mhz PowerPC G4! Big improvement already over the 740Mhz PowerPC G3 that was showing up in previous incarnations of 0.3pre
Cheers,
Aaron
I'm up to 266 nowPPC_Digger wrote:i wish mine showed more that 700 mhz (i'm stuck with 600 g4 or 640 g3)inversation wrote:ah, of course. Thanks muchly for the help, its appreciated. Hey, I finally have OSX 10.3 back up and running, and switched over to the altivec build, now that its installed. Hurrah, 900Mhz PowerPC G4! Big improvement already over the 740Mhz PowerPC G3 that was showing up in previous incarnations of 0.3pre
Cheers,
Aaron
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I am up to around 633 g3 w/ 256 mb ram.rudefyet wrote:I'm up to 266 nowPPC_Digger wrote:i wish mine showed more that 700 mhz (i'm stuck with 600 g4 or 640 g3)inversation wrote:ah, of course. Thanks muchly for the help, its appreciated. Hey, I finally have OSX 10.3 back up and running, and switched over to the altivec build, now that its installed. Hurrah, 900Mhz PowerPC G4! Big improvement already over the 740Mhz PowerPC G3 that was showing up in previous incarnations of 0.3pre
Cheers,
Aaron
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BTW, the clock speed is fake. Your not really going 900 mhz. If you are using a build w/ jitc you divide your processor by 40 (times slower right now) so my 1.3 ghz is really running at about 32.5 mhz.inversation wrote:ah, of course. Thanks muchly for the help, its appreciated. Hey, I finally have OSX 10.3 back up and running, and switched over to the altivec build, now that its installed. Hurrah, 900Mhz PowerPC G4! Big improvement already over the 740Mhz PowerPC G3 that was showing up in previous incarnations of 0.3pre
Cheers,
Aaron
Have a great time munching on that.
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my beautiful wishlist
this is my wishlist:
-firewire support, there's probably a very big simple reason this hasn't been done and will never be done
-rightclick support, i jumped when i saw an option for this in the newer versions of peargui. then i cursed when it didn't work with ppc.
-pausing, or atleast a save state.
-network, damnit!, you're going to call me a noob for not getting network to work. make network better integrated, or something.
-sound, this one's a really low priority for me.
-everything good from 0.3pre, 0.3pre worked the best for me. then came along the real 0.3. it won't boot my harddrive, it doesn't have nativecdrom support, i could just keep going on. 0.3 should not be a step down from 0.3pre. i think nativecdrom was a very useful feature. so was booting my harddrive.
-firewire support, there's probably a very big simple reason this hasn't been done and will never be done
-rightclick support, i jumped when i saw an option for this in the newer versions of peargui. then i cursed when it didn't work with ppc.
-pausing, or atleast a save state.
-network, damnit!, you're going to call me a noob for not getting network to work. make network better integrated, or something.
-sound, this one's a really low priority for me.
-everything good from 0.3pre, 0.3pre worked the best for me. then came along the real 0.3. it won't boot my harddrive, it doesn't have nativecdrom support, i could just keep going on. 0.3 should not be a step down from 0.3pre. i think nativecdrom was a very useful feature. so was booting my harddrive.
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Something I would like to see is a native Windows build with using PPC as an alternative to Explorer. That way it would appear that I could boot into OSX rather than run it in an emulator once Windows is fully up and running.
Once you've made something idiot proof, they go and invent a better idiot!
I set up an account which I called PearPC and set it so that the only things that started up were PearPC and rundll32. It works pretty well, but since it doesn't go into full screen automatically, doesn't have network, and doesn't have nativecdrom, it kinda sucks. Chelios says he's working on a build that features auto-fullscreen as part of Kwai. Kwai sounds like a pretty awesome project to me.
I'd really recommend you to submit your feature requests to
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... tid=651198
Please only one feature request per submission.
BTW: I implemented the fullscreen mode at startup. And I would have implemented it earlier I if had known that there is need for it.
Please provide a sourceforge account on your submisson otherwise you can't track it (I might close it for some strage reasons and you won't notice and have no chance to complain).
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... tid=651198
Please only one feature request per submission.
BTW: I implemented the fullscreen mode at startup. And I would have implemented it earlier I if had known that there is need for it.
Please provide a sourceforge account on your submisson otherwise you can't track it (I might close it for some strage reasons and you won't notice and have no chance to complain).