[torontocbm] Re: VICE throttled?

  • From: Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:53:22 -0400

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Gil Winkler <kimmyland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, actually I am talking about running it at 250fps, which is done through
> the multiplication factor
> option (200%, 100%, 50%, 20%, 10%, No limit, Custom) and also known as 'warp
> mode'....which
> brings it up to about 26MHz and almost to 55 when I deselect various
> options.
>
> Right....that is what I was talking about :)   I am using the PET 4032
> emulator and TRYING to run it faster than
> 5500% (Considering that I have 4.2Ghz at my disposal, this would mean, after
> accounting for the loss of speed
> through compilation and emulation that there should be somewhere about a
> 100x-fold loss of speed.)   I am wondering
> if the software deliberately throttles VICE to top-out at somewhere around
> 60MHz or is the emulator so badly written that
> 4,200Mhz will only translate to 30MHz on VICE?

I fail to understand your relation of VICE fps and Mhz of anything. I
have a feeling you don't entirely understand what you're asking and
neither do I.

-- 
Ian Colquhoun <icolquhoun@xxxxxxxxx>

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