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, 13:18, 7 November 2022Restore audio support thanks the ES1370 device from the 2014 howto. It still works for a Linux VM, the flag has just been renamed
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# '''Emulating a big-endian development system from your regular development machine''': | # '''Emulating a big-endian development system from your regular development machine''': | ||
#* Any reasonably powerful desktop system should be able to emulate a big-endian architecture, thanks to [https://www.qemu.org QEMU]. | #* Any reasonably powerful desktop system should be able to emulate a big-endian architecture, thanks to [https://www.qemu.org QEMU]. | ||
#* The main drawback is that this currently requires running some older/unmaintained Linux distributions, and, as of late 2022, | #* The main drawback is that this currently requires running some older/unmaintained Linux distributions, and, as of late 2022, graphics acceleration support is missing. Since this is emulation (and not virtualization), there is also a noticeable (but usually tolerable) performance impact. | ||
This howto focuses on the last option, since it is the most accessible one, and it's still a way of fixing the majority of endianness issues we encounter. | This howto focuses on the last option, since it is the most accessible one, and it's still a way of fixing the majority of endianness issues we encounter. | ||
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* Security support updates have been discontinued for Debian 8 in late 2018. Older cryptographic ciphers and certificates (such as in TLS or SSH) in the base system may also cause various issues. For this reason, this VM should only be run ''on a local, trusted environment''. | * Security support updates have been discontinued for Debian 8 in late 2018. Older cryptographic ciphers and certificates (such as in TLS or SSH) in the base system may also cause various issues. For this reason, this VM should only be run ''on a local, trusted environment''. | ||
* | * 3D games will have a slow framerate, since QEMU only provides a limited, unaccelerated framebuffer for PPC. Make sure that the ScummVM component you want to debug/test won't be impacted by these limitations. | ||
* '''The bigger your host CPU clock rate, the better''': a 4 GHz CPU will bring some improvement over a 3 GHz CPU, which is itself much better than a 2 GHz CPU, and so on<ref>For reference, a full build of ScummVM with only the SCUMM engine takes around 26 minutes in QEMU on an Intel i7 or an Apple M1, while the same build on a native PowerPC G4 7447A takes 13 minutes (all single-threaded).</ref>. Note that QEMU emulation is mostly single-threaded, so having many CPU cores isn't really useful for this. | * '''The bigger your host CPU clock rate, the better''': a 4 GHz CPU will bring some improvement over a 3 GHz CPU, which is itself much better than a 2 GHz CPU, and so on<ref>For reference, a full build of ScummVM with only the SCUMM engine takes around 26 minutes in QEMU on an Intel i7 or an Apple M1, while the same build on a native PowerPC G4 7447A takes 13 minutes (all single-threaded).</ref>. Note that QEMU emulation is mostly single-threaded, so having many CPU cores isn't really useful for this. | ||
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-m 2048 ^ | -m 2048 ^ | ||
-g 1024x750x32 ^ | -g 1024x750x32 ^ | ||
-device ES1370 ^ | |||
-no-reboot ^ | -no-reboot ^ | ||
-boot c ^ | -boot c ^ | ||
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-m 2048 \ | -m 2048 \ | ||
-g 1024x750x32 \ | -g 1024x750x32 \ | ||
-device ES1370 \ | |||
-no-reboot \ | -no-reboot \ | ||
-boot c \ | -boot c \ | ||
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=== Various options for a more convenient setup === | === Various options for a more convenient setup === | ||
==== Unmuting audio ==== | |||
If you can't hear any sound, make sure that your QEMU run script has the <code>-device ES1370</code> option. | |||
It's also possible that the emulated audio card is muted inside the Linux VM, for some reason. To fix this, start the Applications > Multimedia > Audio Mixer program and check that no main output is muted (you can also run the <code>alsamixer</code> program in the Terminal and type <code>M</code> and then <code>Esc</code> to unmute the main output). | |||
==== Modern IDE integration ==== | ==== Modern IDE integration ==== | ||