Quickdraw vs Quartz?
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Quickdraw vs Quartz?
I've been looking and it appears that Sheepshaver still uses Quickdraw. Are there any real drawbacks to that vs. Quartz or what are the implications?
SheepShaver emulates a mac to allow OS 9 to be run. OS 9 doesn't support Quartz. It seems for OSX Quartz (and Quartz Extreme) is a way to offload screen handling to the graphics processor on your video card. And there is another bottle neck: SheepShaver needs to emulate a video card for OS 9. But it also tries to offload some processing to the host machine. It does this with the help of the SDL libraries to get some compatibility between the different host systems it can run on.
So, to make a longish story short: OS 9 only has Quickdraw available, and some of it's operations are accelerated by offloading to the host. Quartz is only available on OSX.
Best,
Cat_7
So, to make a longish story short: OS 9 only has Quickdraw available, and some of it's operations are accelerated by offloading to the host. Quartz is only available on OSX.
Best,
Cat_7