changeset 1015:d8c1c1c5f609

Update installation instructions.
author Matti Hamalainen <ccr@tnsp.org>
date Sat, 28 Feb 2015 02:57:33 +0200
parents 7527468689e7
children 0fee394985f2
files INSTALL
diffstat 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/INSTALL	Sat Oct 04 18:06:47 2014 +0300
+++ b/INSTALL	Sat Feb 28 02:57:33 2015 +0200
@@ -56,21 +56,13 @@
   SID-chip available. This, however, comes at high cost:
   libSIDPlayFP 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 libSIDPlayFP is not yet 100%, there may
-  be changes. Bugs are evident, though many of them will be fixed
-  eventually.
+  
+Conclusion thus is as follows: If you are using a VERY old system without
+much spare CPU-power, choose libSIDPlay v1. On any system that is not
+older than a decade, you probably want libSIDPlayFP.
 
-  
-Conclusion thus is as follows: If you are using a VERY old system with not
-much spare CPU-power, choose libSIDPlay v1. On a relatively "recent"
-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
-libSIDPlayFP, if you have approximately ~20% CPU to spare for
-playing the tunes.
+There isn't any reason to choose libSIDPlay v2 over "FP" nowadays,
+unless you are somehow stuck with a system that can't handle FP.
 
 
 Where to get XMMS?
@@ -97,14 +89,6 @@
 $ apt-get install libsidplay1-dev
 
 
-Where to get and how to install libSIDPlay2?
-============================================
-You might have it in your $OS_DISTRIBUTION of preference. For example
-Debian should have a compatible set of packages available, try:
-
-$ apt-get install libsidplay2-dev libresid-builder-dev
-
-
 Where to get libSIDPlayFP?
 ==========================
 
@@ -118,6 +102,14 @@
 Earlier and later ones might not, there is no guarantee.
 
 
+Where to get and how to install libSIDPlay2?
+============================================
+You might have it in your $OS_DISTRIBUTION of preference. For example
+Debian should have a compatible set of packages available, try:
+
+$ apt-get install libsidplay2-dev libresid-builder-dev
+
+
 Building a Mercurial-version
 ============================
 To build a version of XMMS-SID from Mercurial repository,
@@ -185,8 +177,11 @@
 Post-installation configuration
 ===============================
 To gain full advantage of using XMMS-SID, you need to configure it.
-XMMS-SID can be configured just like any other XMMS plugin, in XMMS
-do as follows:
+When running for the first time, XMMS-SID will show its configuration
+dialog automatically.
+
+Afterwards it can be configured just like any other XMMS plugin,
+in XMMS do as follows:
 
  -> Press <ctrl+p>
  -> Select "Audio I/O Plugins"-tab