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Lady Heather on a Raspberry PI 5 and Apple silicon M2 chips

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Mark Sims
Mon, May 20, 2024 5:41 AM

I recently got a PI5 and tried Lady Heather on it.  Compiled easily and ran with only one issue...  the PI5 has an HDMI output, but it looks like writing to the screen is rather slow.  Drawing the normal screen image can take long enough that the time display lags somewhat at the 1 second update rate and the keyboard response is rather laggy.  . This was rather surprising since the PI5 has a 2.4 GHz clock...  This does not happen when showing the clock only displays on a zoomed screen.

I also have Heather running well on a Mac Mini with the Apple silicon M2 chip.  I had or modify the make file to use the clang compiler (GCC is  just a front end to clang, but caused the compile to crash.

I recently got a PI5 and tried Lady Heather on it. Compiled easily and ran with only one issue... the PI5 has an HDMI output, but it looks like writing to the screen is rather slow. Drawing the normal screen image can take long enough that the time display lags somewhat at the 1 second update rate and the keyboard response is rather laggy. . This was rather surprising since the PI5 has a 2.4 GHz clock... This does not happen when showing the clock only displays on a zoomed screen. I also have Heather running well on a Mac Mini with the Apple silicon M2 chip. I had or modify the make file to use the clang compiler (GCC is just a front end to clang, but caused the compile to crash.