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Re: WDIALOG.PRG

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Steve wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:02 am Tone you're getting that 'wdialog needed' message because of the cops accessory. That is also an old version of cops - the latest cops does not even require wdialog.

grab the latest version:
https://bintray.com/freemint/app/cops/1.09-39bd4159
I ended up removing cops as Notator hates it. Then I later switched to NVDI 2.51 which plays nice with Notator after finding some freezes with NVDI 5.
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i was thinking more of getting jinnee to work under mint with xaaes, i've tried runner.prg and jinnee.app from shell entry, both refuse to work. i'm thinking i either need wdialog or ndialog (latter being the cleaner one, but i think it's for naes only)
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you don't need wdialog.prg if you are running XaAES as the same already provides wdialog functionality.
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COPS 1.09? Anyone? The links seems to be dead. :-(
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Thanks! :-)
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I couldn't get WDIALOG to autoload with Geneva no matter how I configured XBOOT.

While trying to decide whether to stick with NVDI 2.51, I compared 2.51 to 5.03 using GEMBench. It appears that 5.03 is a little slower than 2.51.

GEMBench NVDI 2.51 vs 5.03
GEMBench NVDI 2.51 vs 5.03
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chronicthehedgehog wrote: Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:08 pm While trying to decide whether to stick with NVDI 2.51, I compared 2.51 to 5.03 using GEMBench. It appears that 5.03 is a little slower than 2.51.NVDICMP.png
I do believe that 5 is a bit slower than 2.5 IIRC. Though if I remember rightly WARP9 is faster still, but has more compatibility problems.

So it is plausible that version 5 is slower simply because it fixes potentially compatibility issues whereas 2.5 does not. :shrug:
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Interestingly NVDI 5.03 is the slowest of all of the NVDIs. Your mileage may depend on what resolution you use, but I did a little test here: https://sites.google.com/view/ataritosser/my-atari/nvdi
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exxos wrote: Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:23 pm So it is plausible that version 5 is slower simply because it fixes potentially compatibility issues whereas 2.5 does not. :shrug:
That would make sense - more bloat less speed :)
Atari74user wrote: Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:23 pm Interestingly NVDI 5.03 is the slowest of all of the NVDIs. Your mileage may depend on what resolution you use, but I did a little test here: https://sites.google.com/view/ataritosser/my-atari/nvdi
That's an interesting write-up. 3.02 sounds like a good all-rounder. Do you ever use SpeedoGDOS 5.7 with 3.02? I must admit to being a bit confused as to when/where it's needed. It seemed to play nicely with 2.51 and gave me a nice font in ST-guide. Beyond that I'm clueless :D

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