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Planning ZVG project... what to do... what to do...
My next project will be a ZVG multi-vector...
There has been soooooo much going on with this... Barry's work with his cab, Chad's menu, and Steve's work with Linux and Windows...
All this is great... but it puts me at a bit of a dilemma...
DOS, Linux or Windows...hmm
Windows, hands down will probably be the easiest to deal with... but tweaking it so that the operating system doesn't always write to the disk and interrupt the current program is next to impossible. Plus... having all the OS overhead is totally unnecessary for this type of cab...
DOS... another easy one to deal with but newer mobo's don't always work... no USB support so that limits the types of encoders you can use...
I'm leaning towards linux as I believe it will end up being the best in terms of performance... but maybe not so good in terms of the file system... usually if linux is not brought down cleanly... you end up with a crap ton of consistency checks on start up and sometimes a bunch of extra chk files lying around.... which can build up and be kind of annoying. However, I've build SBC linux boards with solid state and ram disks to get around file system issues in the past.
...something to think about.
My next project will be a ZVG multi-vector...
There has been soooooo much going on with this... Barry's work with his cab, Chad's menu, and Steve's work with Linux and Windows...
All this is great... but it puts me at a bit of a dilemma...
DOS, Linux or Windows...hmm
Windows, hands down will probably be the easiest to deal with... but tweaking it so that the operating system doesn't always write to the disk and interrupt the current program is next to impossible. Plus... having all the OS overhead is totally unnecessary for this type of cab...
DOS... another easy one to deal with but newer mobo's don't always work... no USB support so that limits the types of encoders you can use...
I'm leaning towards linux as I believe it will end up being the best in terms of performance... but maybe not so good in terms of the file system... usually if linux is not brought down cleanly... you end up with a crap ton of consistency checks on start up and sometimes a bunch of extra chk files lying around.... which can build up and be kind of annoying. However, I've build SBC linux boards with solid state and ram disks to get around file system issues in the past.
...something to think about.