vt1200/harness/mame/timing.lua

-- How much *emulated* time have we run?  Real hardware reaches the font table in
-- ~12 s, so this answers "is the emulator slow, or is the firmware stuck?"
--
--   TIM_FRAMES=1500 <mame> vt1200 ... -autoboot_script harness/mame/timing.lua
--
-- Also reports the screen's frame period, which sets the whole emulated timebase.

local machine = manager.machine
local dbg = machine.debugger

local maxframes = tonumber(os.getenv("TIM_FRAMES") or "1500")
local every     = tonumber(os.getenv("TIM_EVERY") or "250")
local n = 0
local t0 = nil

local scr = nil
for _, s in pairs(machine.screens) do scr = s end
if scr then
	print(string.format("screen: %dx%d  refresh=%.4f Hz  frame_period=%.6f s",
		scr.width, scr.height, scr.refresh, scr.refresh > 0 and (1.0 / scr.refresh) or 0))
end

emu.register_frame_done(function()
	n = n + 1
	if t0 == nil then t0 = machine.time:as_double() end
	if n % every == 0 then
		print(string.format("frame %5d   emulated_time=%8.2fs", n, machine.time:as_double()))
	end
	if n >= maxframes then
		local dt = machine.time:as_double() - t0
		print(string.format("TOTAL: %d frames = %.2f s emulated  (%.4f s/frame)",
			maxframes, dt, dt / maxframes))
		machine:exit()
	end
end, "vt1200-timing")

dbg.execution_state = 'run'