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Which do you use?

Legacy
- 7 (4.1%)
SDL
- 153 (89%)
Dwarf Fortress? I haven't played this game in years!
- 12 (7%)

Total Members Voted: 172


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Iados

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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2011, 11:06:11 am »
I use SDL, but some unknown force made me vote for legacy.

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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2011, 01:45:45 pm »
* peterix looks at the poll results.
... And this is why I don't bother with supporting legacy versions in dfhack.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2011, 08:47:07 pm »
The SDL got some problems with "foreign" (e.g. non-US) keyboards, so I used Legacy for a while.
Now I simply change the layout from my native danish to US whenever I play Dwarf Fortress.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2011, 08:53:09 pm »
SDL for me. Wow, only 1/21 users use legacy.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2011, 09:16:02 pm »
I've used both. On some, but very few computers, Leg runs faster.  Including my old one. SDL all the way, though.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2011, 11:55:49 pm »
Quote from: peterix on March 08, 2011, 01:45:45 pm
* peterix looks at the poll results.
... And this is why I don't bother with supporting legacy versions in dfhack.

Glad that this thread has some practical informative value...
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #21 on: March 09, 2011, 05:10:44 am »
I use legacy because it allows me to capture videos in fraps.

But only when I am capturing videos, otherwise I use SDL.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2011, 05:21:49 am »
SDL, it is dead sexy. From what I can see there is no downside for me. If there is any, please tell so I can make an informed choice.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #23 on: March 09, 2011, 06:17:27 am »
Quote from: zwei on March 09, 2011, 05:10:44 am
I use legacy because it allows me to capture videos in fraps.

But only when I am capturing videos, otherwise I use SDL.
If you change the render mode to Standard or above then the SDL version should work with FRAPS.
(also Steam)
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #24 on: March 09, 2011, 01:48:15 pm »
when DF2010 first came out, I used legacy.  My reasoning was that, when you resize things in legacy they stretch out versus the dragging on SDL which just makes the window larger.  That, and I also got better FPS on legacy for a bit until some releases ago when SDL ran just as good as legacy.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #25 on: March 09, 2011, 04:16:59 pm »
SDL has zoom on the mousewheel that should get you back to how you like it.
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Quote from: Sphalerite on September 23, 2010, 08:56:03 pm
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #26 on: March 10, 2011, 02:01:20 am »
Quote from: Thief^ on March 09, 2011, 06:17:27 am
Quote from: zwei on March 09, 2011, 05:10:44 am
I use legacy because it allows me to capture videos in fraps.

But only when I am capturing videos, otherwise I use SDL.
If you change the render mode to Standard or above then the SDL version should work with FRAPS.
(also Steam)

Oh.

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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2011, 01:29:12 pm »
I'm currently using Legacy, but I want to use SDL. How easy is it to transfer a legacy save made in .16 to .21 SDL?
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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2011, 01:38:41 pm »
Just copy it from the save directory of one to the other.
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Quote from: Count Dorku on November 25, 2009, 04:00:47 am
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Quote from: Sphalerite on September 23, 2010, 08:56:03 pm
It's not an embark so much as seven dwarves having a simultaneous strange mood and going off to build an artifact fortress that menaces with spikes of awesome and hanging rings of death.

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Re: Legacy vs SDL
« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2011, 01:41:34 pm »
Heh, that was simple; worked like a charm.
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