DreamShell v4.0.0 Release

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(16.05.2024 06:49)VeraBecker писал(а):  

(13.05.2024 06:09)SWAT писал(а):  Yeah thanks, your PR merged!

Yes, I saw that MegaVolt reviewed it quickly, thanks.

Swat, are there better libraries than SDL to handle display on Dreamcast? It is very slow when loading images, I read that it is because it does it through software instead of hardware.

The rendering type does not affect image loading speed. Quite the contrary, for hardware rendering of images you also need to load them into video memory, which will only slow down the loading. So loading speed is not equal to rendering speed. These are different things.
SDL was chosen a long time ago and because of its simplicity and convenience. Yes, I would like the rendering to be faster in some places, but this only appears when scrolling the list of files and the console text, nothing more. Otherwise it works quite well. For special cases such as video frames display, there is a mechanism for hardware rendering on top of a software screen. This one is used for camera previews.
Thus, the DS has a hybrid rendering mechanism.