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 === OSystem changes ===
-* Probably it's a really good time for adding more modularity to OSystem. I.e. separate these:
+Now might be a good time for making OSystem more modular. That is, instead of using subclassing,
-** Scaling
+use a "component" approach, were instead of a single monolithic backends interface, we split responsibility for
-** Input (events)
+various features into several components/modules.
-** Drawing
-** Timers
+Candidates for modules are
-** Mutexes
+* Drawing
-** Sound
+* Sound (possibly allow for custom mixer implementations?)
+* Input (events)
+* Timers
+* Mutexes (only used when timers are involved, so could be joint with that)
+* Virtual keyboard
+Examples for existing "backend modules" (in a sense at least) are
+* MIDI/Music drivers (see backends/midi/)
+* FilesystemNode code (see backends/fs/)
+* Scaler code (see common/scaler*) -> we already share some scaler code, but that could probably be done in a better way, and maybe some more generic scalers could be added (e.g. a good & fast downscaler).