Thread: Droid and Android gaming irony
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2009-11-21 , 17:01
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#26
Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
You know perfectly well that for years I have been requesting from nokia tablets basic video output at a 1989 level of computer performance.
Not gonna happen. Not with the Linux, X11, compositing window manager, Gtk+, etc. between you and the hardware. Having said that, go to full screen, open /dev/fb0, and you are as close to the hardware as you can possibly get. Ok, N900 hardware won't scale for you that easily (N8x0 did though). But scaling with the CPU is not that bad either, as long as you implement it for a specific ratio.

To call the N900 *fast* for emulators at this point when you know we have nasty bottlenecks in both video and audio is misleading.
Well, I never really called it fast, but it is fast enough, as far as I am concerned. My real bottleneck is not the physical bitmap output, which I have well under control in both N8x0 and N900. I really think concerns about audio/video output are somewhat overrated, although Pulse Audio is still a [broken] pig.

Please dont buy an android-only device. It is like buying diapers for yourself and wearing them in public while bragging that you can no longer soil the furniture..
Ah, come on, don't show slack when the success is so close! Let us make him buy an Android, for Tentacled's sake! If the guy really believes that the Droid is superior in performance to N900 and "has better emulators", we should support his choice right to the logical conclusion of his troubles. =)
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