In perhaps not entirely unrelated news, I tried updating Hatari, the Atari ST/TT/Falcon emulator, in the hope that it would deal with some little glitches and the program's seeming inability to detect the game controller, and unfortunately the latest version of Hatari seems to have more glitches and compatibility issues than the older one. That may be down to the thing's native development environment being Linux on Intel-compatible hardware, with less testing on other platforms. It runs SubLogic Flight Simulator II, but, for some reason, not the little apps I wrote in college (which ran fine under an older version of Hatari on my old computer).
I was wondering if the issue was that I was still running an older version of EmuTOS, the reverse-engineered open-source TOS/GEM replacement inside the machine, but, no, updating that doesn't seem to make a difference.
It happens sometimes in this world. I recall that for a while, there was a string of versions of the Atari800MacX emulator where I had to choose between broken sound and broken keyboard scanning--the version that fixed one introduced the other. But eventually they got it all squared away.
I think a lot of open-source software with Mac builds is still not quite over the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon (a flavor of ARM, like seemingly everything these days). Some stuff may run better under Apple's Intel emulation layer than in Apple Silicon-native builds.
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Date: 2024-10-06 01:09 pm (UTC)I was wondering if the issue was that I was still running an older version of EmuTOS, the reverse-engineered open-source TOS/GEM replacement inside the machine, but, no, updating that doesn't seem to make a difference.
It happens sometimes in this world. I recall that for a while, there was a string of versions of the Atari800MacX emulator where I had to choose between broken sound and broken keyboard scanning--the version that fixed one introduced the other. But eventually they got it all squared away.
I think a lot of open-source software with Mac builds is still not quite over the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon (a flavor of ARM, like seemingly everything these days). Some stuff may run better under Apple's Intel emulation layer than in Apple Silicon-native builds.