[Coco] OVCC for Raspberry PI Raspbian Stretch

[Walter Zambotti]

Someone asked regarding this and so.

 

I have managed to get OVCC working on the Raspberry PI Raspbian

But the performance is so bad I will not be releasing it.

 

On the the 3B+ it manages 3fps throttled and 30 fps un-throttled.

 

Unfortunately the SDL2 libraries for Raspbian are not optimised or
accelerated and worse appear broken.

 

The 30 fps in un-throttled mode does not work properly with a screen update
occurring every several seconds.

 

There is another version available for the PI that runs under Ubuntu Mate
from.

 

I have run this and it operates at 15fps max when set to 1.89mhz.  This is
only a quarter of the 60fps required
for normal operation.

 

This is hardly ideal.

 

Unfortunately OVCC requires a to b run in a Window manager and cannot be run
directly on the graphics device.

 

What most SBC arm systems do is run specialised emulators that provide
graphics without a window manager.

 

Like MAME!

 

I think MAME on Arm Linux would be the best option for a CoCo emulator on
such low powered systems.

 

Walter