[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] first impressions and some reports

[From: Salonen Kuisma]

Hi,

ext Gustavo Barbieri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Now that I have the maemo environment set up, I started to love this
> thing!!! And python!
> 
> Thanks to Osvaldo and Ruda, I can run PythonCAD without any changes!
> 
> Also, my game tutorial (pt_BR) runs perfectly (just need to check the
> perfomance on a real device, since it's side scroll and redraws the
> screen every time):
> http://www.gustavobarbieri.com.br/jogos/jogo.tar.gz
>    Could someone run "python2.4 jogo/a06/jogo.py -f -r 800x480" on a
> real device and check if performance is an issue... if it can do at
> least 30fps it's good enough. If it's ok I'll develop a game using
> that engine. Also, it can be optimized a bit, I wrote it as an
> educative project.
> 

I haven't checked it but it unfortunately cannot get that high 
framerates with the resoluation with current SDL we have (and pygame 
depends on the SDL).

And I am still not sure how much python will downgrade performance but I 
think that for now you unfortunately should just stick to partial screen 
refreshing if you want it to work smoothly on the device. At least you 
shouldn't scroll all the time, since < 20 fps isn't that smooth (not 
sure how much under 20 fps since i haven't enought of the experience 
with the pygame).

-Kuisma