No worries! At 100MHz a fresh install of Win2k+SP4+Pd runs fine with a decent graphics card and soundcard at 100% acceleration. Graphics and sound(MIDI) should be PCI based, not ISA. I expect Linux will run at least as well. MIDI timing accuracy can suffer with audio running, so -noaudio. GUI objects (numbers, sliders, bangs, toggles, etc) are CPU hogs, so minimize or close the windows containing them while "running". After your patch works, and you have console keyboard controls working with [key] or network controls with [netreceive], you can certainly start pd -nogui
By the way, since your CPU is MMX, DSP things can run surprisingly well if you decide to try using them.
Lex
julien.breval@tremplin-utc.net wrote:
Hello
I have an old Pentium 1 MMX 100 MHz laptop that I would like to use for MIDI controlling with Pure Data under Linux. Is it possible ? I'm afraid the Tcl/Tk GUI will be very slow
Also, which Linux distribution would you install ? I currently use PlanetCCRMA RH on my desktop computer
Maybe using a classic MIDI sequencer would be better ...
Thanks for you advice
-j
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