Re: [MiNT] Sparemint question

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 11:45, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm just starting to re-acquaint myself with the Atari Falcon 030 (I do not 
> have an accelerator of any sort yet, but I do have 14 megs Ram).
> 
> I had Freemint (1.15, I think?) running with the Thing desktop (registered) on 
> a Falcon I sold some years ago (Nemesis accelerator). It worked great. I've 
> still got some saved screenshots of it.
> 
> Anyways, to quit rambling - since it looks like it might be awhile before I 
> can get another accelerator of some sort (sure wish I could have gotten in on 
> the CT60!), will the current sparemint work okay on a stock Falcon with 14 
> megs of Ram? I'm talking about speed, responsiveness, etc...
> 
> Thank you.

Hrmm,

Make no mistake, it'll be slow.  But you can get away with it on 14
megs.  I always did before the CT60.  Definitely use either N.Aes or
Xaaes (now with improved speed) because anything else will probably be
pathetically slow.  And even with n.aes things won't be perfectly fast,
but it's a useable system.  The raw horsepower under the initial
slowness is still there, and you can still play mp3's, etc.

Mark
http://portal.atari-source.com