Curse of the SDL

[NovaCoder]

My AGA/ECS ports seem to run well enough on real hw, check youtube

Back to the 68k SDL, yes it is a little slow on real HW (but runs surprisingly well on OS4/MorphOS).   Anyway my next RTG release won't use SDL though and should be quicker than my current version.

[NovaCoder]

About speed, I really do belive that SDL is major slowdown for 68k amigas, but we will see is it true, when native scummVM is relased.

Quite a few RTG 060 users have said the AGA version of ScummVM is much faster on their RTG boxes than the SDL based RTG release so yes, I hope when I do a 'native' RTG version we'll see the speed increase a bit (it should of course run faster than the AGA version at the same resolution/color depth).

The AGA version may get a chance to catch up again with the RTG version if I can get direct-chunky working (eg Graffiti) and skip the C2P step
 
I don't think the 68k SDL is a curse though, it was very helpful to me when I did my intial port (the 68k SDL source code was made open source).   Most of the performance issues are probably down to the fact that it's no longer maintained.

[NovaCoder]

I've just done the first non-SDL version of ScummVM RTG and it seems to be a little quicker than the old SDL one, it's now fast enough to play Curse of Monkey Island on 68k

[NovaCoder]

Sorry for the off topic-ness, but:

@Novacoder

Any particular reason youve only supported certain games in your ScummVM builds? I recently got a copy of Broken Sword that Id love to play on my Amithlon box If it's not too much of a chore is there any chance you could do a full build please ?

Yep it's down to gcc I'm afraid, I can only link it so many engines before the compiler has a sulk and spits the dummy.   There's not much point supporting SVGA games for the AGA version anyway because 640x480x256 is too slow in AGA and I only support Curse of Monkey Island in AGA.   For the RTG version I will also add support for Broken Sword 2 and maybe Broken Sword 1 as well