It's near full speed on a reasonably fangled core-2-duo mac thing (with the frameskip). But you're right, this isn't really working out...
Oh well, it's been fun to hack on. Time to re-learn Java.
Flash doesn't really make it easy on itself - it forces all graphics to be 32-bit-per-pixel (ARGB), generated sound is locked to 44.1kHz stereo, and you have to feed it floats. All manipulated from a bytecode interpreter: it's like it wants to be slow!
Turns out Flash is really slow
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I've been unable to test the latest version as it keeps killing my browser (i.e., it stops responding) 
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Can I tempt you with the idea of doing a version without relying on any browser plugins? With the latest browsers having fast javascript engines and supporting HTML 5 you may be surprised at what you can do. I think pure browser versions of ZX Spectrum and the NES are in the wild.sixxie wrote:It's near full speed on a reasonably fangled core-2-duo mac thing (with the frameskip). But you're right, this isn't really working out...
Oh well, it's been fun to hack on. Time to re-learn Java.
Flash doesn't really make it easy on itself - it forces all graphics to be 32-bit-per-pixel (ARGB), generated sound is locked to 44.1kHz stereo, and you have to feed it floats. All manipulated from a bytecode interpreter: it's like it wants to be slow!
Cheers.
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Forgot to say, good job on the flash version 
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Well, haXe can target javascript too so it wouldn't even involve another complete rewrite - yeah, I'll give it a go some dayzaf wrote: Can I tempt you with the idea of doing a version without relying on any browser plugins? With the latest browsers having fast javascript engines and supporting HTML 5 you may be surprised at what you can do. I think pure browser versions of ZX Spectrum and the NES are in the wild.