Running Emu71 on Android

[Valentin Albillo]

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Hi, everyone:

(09-13-2018 10:24 PM)Didier Lachieze Wrote:  So go71b with a time of .07 at x128 is 7 time faster than Emu71 on my tablet.

A pity. Speed is often of the essence for me and Emu71/DOSBox being 7 times slower than go71b on the same hardware is pretty bad news. Just for instance, one of the challenges I recently explored took many hours to run in go71b at 128x so 7 times slower would have meant several days, utterly impractical.

Nevertheless I'm positive that Emu71 will not be a nuisance to use so I'll try and install it in my tablet and will use it for less demanding tasks.

(09-13-2018 11:28 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  FI - As another data point, on my Android Moto Force Z phone, I get:

@ 1X: 9.75
@ 128X: 0.07

So it does seem to scale about linearly.

Yes, it seems so, your times are exactly like mine.

(09-14-2018 02:24 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  I agree with you that an editor does not necessary need network/internet access to do editing only. Network might be required if the editor was not limited to only editing files physically located on the tablet. For example, you might want to edit files in the cloud.

It's a possibility but certainly not my case, I'd rather download the file myself in order to edit it instead of giving full network access and other net permissions to an essentially unknown app.

Quote:But I am curious how an editor program can be limited to plain text files only. File Editors, by definition, edit files!

"File editors" might but this is not what's being discussed here, which is how to install and use Emu71 under DOSBox.

Emu71 doesn't work with graphics or multimedia files so the only thing that's needed is a text (not "file") editor, which is point 4 in Didier's original post (and it's optional at that). Thus a generic "file" editor is not required here and if the one Didier suggested asks for permissions to access and edit file types other than plain text then it's overreaching what's needed, and not to be paranoic but giving such important permissions casually might be a really big and dangerous security hole.

Thanks to all of you for your valuable comments and regards.
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