# HG changeset patch # User Matti Hamalainen # Date 1375079499 -10800 # Node ID bafb3f102e914de178d44da059f7240bf4d7092e # Parent ea3889c40011397151b50952e54855d761cec3d8 Update some of the installation information. diff -r ea3889c40011 -r bafb3f102e91 INSTALL --- a/INSTALL Sun Mar 31 11:45:23 2013 +0300 +++ b/INSTALL Mon Jul 29 09:31:39 2013 +0300 @@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ produced are harsher and emulation of SID filter is far from accurate. - libSIDPlay v1 requires very little CPU power, it is faster and - may have fewer bugs due to being more mature software. Many - OS distributions have pre-built packages of it, not something that - can be said of libSIDPlay v2. Some people may even like the - harsher sound produced by libSIDPlay v1. + libSIDPlay v1 requires very little CPU power, it will work even + on very slow devices. Many OS distributions have pre-built packages + of it, not something that can be said of libSIDPlay v2, even less + libSIDPlay-FP. Some people may even like theharsher sound produced + by libSIDPlay v1. Drawbacks are: worse emulation, eventually weakening compability as new SID-tunes/files are ripped into "RSID"-format which @@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ SID-emulation framework. Along with reSID-library it produces probably most accurate software-emulated representation of SID-chip available. This, however, comes at high cost: - libSIDPlay2/FP tends to eat CPU like popcorn. + libSIDPlay-FP tends to eat CPU like popcorn. It is also less spread, not packaged in distributions (that I know of, at the time of writing of this), so you may have to roll your own. - Also the API-stability of libSIDPlay2/FP is not yet 100%, there may + Also the API-stability of libSIDPlay-FP is not yet 100%, there may be changes. Bugs are evident, though many of them will be fixed eventually. @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ system (Pentium-M, Pentium4 1GHz+) you may wish to choose libSIDPlay v2. On a Intel Core2 or Intel Core i5/7 level system you could choose -libSIDPlay-FP, if you have ~20% CPU to spare. +libSIDPlay-FP, if you have approximately ~20% CPU to spare for +playing the tunes. Where to get XMMS? @@ -121,8 +122,9 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay-residfp/ -Version 0.3.7 should be compatible. Earlier and later ones might not, -as the API seems to be in flux at the moment. +Versions 0.3.7 and 1.0.1 should be compatible with XMMS-SID. +Earlier and later ones might not, as the API seems to be in +flux at the moment. Building a Mercurial-version