changeset 987:bafb3f102e91

Update some of the installation information.
author Matti Hamalainen <ccr@tnsp.org>
date Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:31:39 +0300
parents ea3889c40011
children a3ad20eb0f26
files INSTALL
diffstat 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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.
 
 
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