Hey, Amber, how's Haiku going?
Overall, pretty well!
I'm definitely feeling the itch to give this OS more CPU performance, mostly because of the primary browser I'm using -- Falkon -- being a bit slow to render pages.
In fact, most of my issues at the moment are with Falkon failing to render some webpages (TinkerCAD, Patreon, & Instacart for example)
I've got USB audio working, but the buffers seem too small, as I'm getting a lot of repeated samples.
I'm finding myself preferring Haiku-native apps, (often ports of older BeOS applications), because they launch and respond the fastest on the system, and the speed of this OS is addictive. I forget that I'm running it on 12-year-old hardware until I try rendering a modern webpage in Falkon ๐
Some interesting omissions: neither Basilisk II nor the infamous SheepShaver are available in the Haiku Depot, which seem like strange omissions for this OS, given its heritage...
Also Aseprite and a graphical STL slicer would allow me to do gamedev and 3D printing on this OS.
There appear to be a number of competent image editors in the repositories, but I have a large backlog of aseprite saved files that are as-yet unreadable.
Curaengine exists in the depot, but as far as I can tell, it's just the commandline slicer backend rather than the GUI. I imagine porting it would be a bit of a pain.
@shyra well it's Python + Qt so maybe not as hard as you'd think.
I wonder if @pulkomandy tried.
Hmmm... sounds like it'd be an easier porting project than something like Slic3r / PrusaSlicer / OrcaSlicer
@mmu_man @shyra I don't do a lot of 3D printing, so, no.
Is asesprite fileformat documented somewhere? I may be able to add that to GrafX2. And muybe Asesprite can be ported too, there's no reason it wouldn't work.
I think I had Basilisk II running a few years ago but could not figure out SheepShaver's buildsystem, maybe it's time I give it another try
@pulkomandy @shyra I could have a try at porting these on a stream but I fear VirtualBox and OBS at once would melt my laptop.
Also I'd need to make room in the VM.
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Ah, this might be my issue -- #Aseprite was forked back in 2016, when it moved from GPL to a proprietary license.
There's a Libre port of it here: https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite
This might make more sense to try porting to #HaikuOS
@shyra hmm BasiliskII is available for x86_gcc2 (the official platform), I guess you installed the 64bit version?
Unless there's 32bit asm in the code (which could be), it should be possible to add x86_64 to the architectures and build it with haikuporter.
I don't have any original Be software anyway.
Are old binary-only copies of preserved BeOS apps included in the Depot on 32-bit builds? I know PulkoMandy is maintaining a list of known BeOS software...
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