Happy new year! (Yeah, I'm late ;-)
Local hardware
Lots of network changes around here, but everything went
smoothly. This is a bad sign, obviously- things aren't
supposed to go smoothly when networks are involved.
I finally replaced my trusty old NEC CP6 with an HP Laserjet
1100. Technology sure has come some way since the last
millenium- that thing prints a postscript page in less than
10 seconds! (5 to 7, I'd guess). The same took several
minutes on the CP6...
FreeSCI
Widget system is in, menus work again, savegames appear to
be operational- somehow, things are getting together much
faster than I had expected them to. We'll probably start
preparing for a new release RSN- end of this month seems
like a good date for 0.3.1.
I guess it's appropriate to update the homepage with a few
new
screenshots now...
g++
g++ 2.95.3 doesn't fix the SIGILL when running Exult on
Alpha/Linux, so
I'll continue trying to make it work on cxx for a while.
Workstations
Here
is a review of the Sun Blade 1000 (in german). Looks like
another piece of hardware I'd appreciate having around
;-)
It has the usual disadvantages of Sun systems, though- GNU
tools aren't installed (I don't have the slightest Idea why
they keep on forgetting to ship them pre-installed), and the
price is relatively high at roughly 15kEUR (for the cheap
512 MB system). You can probably get a DP2000+ workstation
with 2 833 MHz EV67s (or are those EV68s?) and a gig of ECC
RAM for two thirds of the price, at roughly 1.2 times the FP
and
Int performance- for one processor (but IO and Mem
throughput might be a bit worse, and you won't get a funky
3D accellerator with it). Well,
you could, if enough of those systems were shipping.