He's essentially saying he wished there was an emulator for PC Engine that had Mesen's debugging capabilities/features.Pokun wrote:Yeah there are so many things Mesen does right, but it's not a PC Engine emulator :?: *confused*.
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Rahsennor wrote:Welcome to the state-of-the-art in Linux-native NES debugging.
Nothing about TurboGrafx at all. Sadly.lidnariq wrote:Hey! Mesen's super nice :p
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It is indeed, but Mono ∉ Linux-native.lidnariq wrote:Hey! Mesen's super nice :p
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Eh, Mesen is a mixture of native code and CLR code, and the CLR code is mostly there for the GUI and filesystem stuff. I'm going to have a hard time buying an argument that it's meaningfully worse than GTK3.
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So am I.
Mono, Wine, GTK, Qt, Tk, Motif, GNUstep, XForms, FLTK, SDL, Xaw, all are ultimately toolkits that run over X. This means a Mono application is no less "native" on an X11/Linux distribution than, say, a Qt application is on an X11/Linux distribution whose desktop environment uses GTK.
Mono, Wine, GTK, Qt, Tk, Motif, GNUstep, XForms, FLTK, SDL, Xaw, all are ultimately toolkits that run over X. This means a Mono application is no less "native" on an X11/Linux distribution than, say, a Qt application is on an X11/Linux distribution whose desktop environment uses GTK.
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Each to their own. I don't consider CLR/JVM/insert-bloated-virtual-platform-with-far-too-many-dependencies-here to be "native" to any given OS, unless it's a part of the OS itself. It's "meaningfully worse" than GTK3 because I already have that and use it for other things, while Mono is a ton of extra downloads/updates/bugs/configuration headaches/security holes/disk space with no other purpose.
Don't get me wrong, Mesen is awesome. I'm just fed up with every other app I want to use dragging 400 MB of crap along with it.
Don't get me wrong, Mesen is awesome. I'm just fed up with every other app I want to use dragging 400 MB of crap along with it.
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Besides the size, I do not like Microsoft patented technology. Even with a promise not to assert the patents, supporting Mono is a proxy to supporting Microsoft.
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That's a bit of a predicament whenever Microsoft produces extremely good software, which has happened a lot. I can see why you wouldn't want to support them, but then again I can't see them as worse than pretty much any other large corporation I'd be supporting by buying almost any product nowadays.
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Thanks! Feel free to let me know if you have any comments about the debugging tools, too.Sumez wrote:Big, BIG proprs to Sour!
This is essentially a tradeoff between development speed/simplicity and disk space. Any software could be written to use little to no dependencies, but it will probably take an order of magnitude more time to get the same end result. Mesen's GUI was originally written w/ the Win32 API directly, but getting even the simplest of things working was prohibitively time consuming. Obviously, QT and other solutions would have been better than Win32's API, but as I am not familiar with any of them, it would still have been a lot more time consuming on my end.Rahsennor wrote:I'm just fed up with every other app I want to use dragging 400 MB of crap along with it.
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I hear you, and for the record I'm not blaming you. You're doing it for free and the result is top-notch.Sour wrote:This is essentially a tradeoff between development speed/simplicity and disk space.
I should probably save my whining until I've written my own GUI toolkit.