Trying to improve x49gp

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(08-29-2018 10:46 PM)brickviking Wrote:  Just as well I refreshed this thread then, I had read the post before you "fixed" it, just before you posted this message I'm replying to.

I will be rather grateful for a slightly modernised x49gp, as a couple of the warts from other versions are causing me to have three directories - source, hp50g and hp49g+ just so I can get the bits I want. Let me know when the patch-fest eases up so I can get the codebase on my machine stabilised. Last time I did that was from the Sourceforge files, I think. Has anyone considered upgrading that codebase, or are we just going with the various git repositories?

Sourceforge is abandoned, as far as I know. All the good stuff is happening on GitHub, as well as right here in this thread, due to me not agreeing with GitHub's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
As for when would be a good time to upgrade: I'm pretty sure I didn't break anything important, so just go ahead. Cloning Claudio's repository is probably the easiest way out, even though his history doesn't fully match mine (he inserted a few quick hacks whenever I broke compilation for him, and he squashed the big pile of patches into one). The only actual files that are different from my local repository are the four missing files I just mentioned, and a file I deleted that still remains on Claudio's side (qemu/qemu-0.9.0.tar.gz). I just verified that by pulling a diff between a clone of his repository and mine, so this time we can be sure.

If you're on Linux, you should be good to go. I don't have a Mac, so it's completely untested for that, but it should just work anyway. (I have no clue how installing software works over there, but the Makefiles of other projects I've peeked into don't do any special handling of OSX, so I didn't do any either.) Just clone Claudio's repository, preferably extract the attached archive to restore the missing files (they aren't vital, but at least for installation they are good to have), and see if it compiles.
If it doesn't, yell at me. Otherwise, enjoy your new emulator, as you passed the biggest hurdle - compilation is the one thing that does break somewhat regularly.

Since you apparently have multiple instances, you can still use multiple config files to keep them separate. The only thing you may have to fix is the entry that gives one of them the 49g+ skin. I also recommend setting their name properties which gets used as the window's title to something recognizable, that may help tell them apart. Yes, the window is undecorated, but there are other places the window title is used, most prominently the window bar.
If you start the emulator without specifying any config file on the command-line, it'll use $HOME/.x49gp/config by default. You can just put the files of your main instance there.

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Claudio, the archive may be helpful for you as well. Saves you the trouble of reconstructing the missing files. Patch 32 is integrated already.