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Originally Posted by rosewood
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And that MTR program looks handy but WTF is with it using this 100 meg Java VM?!
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As the author of MTR, I can answer this one. MTR's written in Java, and that means it needs a Java virtual machine to run. IBM J9 (the VM I recommend using) is the only Java VM for PPC that's a) cheap, b) available as a free trial download, and c) easy to get by end users. I think it's kind of insane that it's a 90 MB download, but the reason why is because in that 90 MB are both Linux and Windows desktop installers, and each of those installers contains multiple VM's (Palm, Pocket PC, etc).
When J9 is actually installed on the device, it takes up 8.5 MB -- still unacceptably large, but there are notes in the MTR documentation on how to slim it down to 3.3 MB, and/or move it to the Storage Card so you free up your main memory entirely.
The MTR documention also describes how to find the now-discontinued Sun PersonalJava if you'd rather use that instead, and that's only a 2 MB download. I still recommend J9 because PersonalJava has been long abandoned, but many MTR users choose to use it.
My next major goal for MTR is to eliminate the need for the VM entirely, and in fact I wanted to do that for this release, but there were a lot of baseball fans emailing me who clearly didn't want to wait any longer than they had to. So I released it as is, and the VM is a nuisance but, judging from my email, not something that fans are going to let stand in the way of baseball!
Ivan.
developer of Modern Transistor Radio
live streaming baseball audio and video for your Pocket PC
http://www.ivanx.com/mtr