Hello ! The "Dir as Dsk" feature has been implemented in blueMSX 1.7.0 on special request of Ricardo Bittencourt that has gently shared with the blueMSX team his BRMSX-Windows source code for this feature.
Actually, BRMSX-DOS was the first emulator with this feature. We have insert an "Insert Directory" in the File/Drive A and File/Drive B menus. Here's the explanations from the manual : "Insert Directory Allows to insert a Windows directory as Disk in drive A or drive B. This directory must contain files of a MSX game. The emulator will build with these files a virtual disk image (including a normal MSX boot sector) and run this virtual disk image. If you have inserted the directory in drive A and come only to MSX-BASIC, it means that there is no "AUTOEXEC.BAS" file. Search for the loader file and use the following command : RUN"GAME.LDR" (if the loader file is "GAME.LDR") and press on RETURN (the ENTER key of your PC) . This is the Dir as Dsk feature, that works only in reading mode for security reasons : you can make changes on the virtual disk image, but these changes are not transferred to the Windows source directory. This feature has also specific MSX limitations : no more than 112 files in a directory and you can't exceed a total size of 720 Kb (including the boot sector that will be added automatically on the virtual disk image). It can't work with MSX subdirectories and with special boot sectors." I think that it works exactly like the same feature in openMSX. Beno�t ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Heremans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:53 PM Subject: [MSX] Dir as Disk in blueMSX 1.7.0 > Hello, > > I have a question :-) > Since I don't run Windows I'm currently not testing blueMSX > but the latest release seems to have a dir-as-disk feature. > This sounds like something I've implement in openMSX :-) > Does the blueMSx takes a different approach to it then I did in openMSX, > or are they rather simular? > > If there is any considerable difference, could the author please contact > me ? I've split off my disk constructing code in msxtar, an openMSX > subproject, but I would gladly exchange some ideas about on-the-fly disk > emulation, and I would like to know blueMSX's dev stance on this > subject. > > rgds, > > David Heremans > > > -- > openMSX - the open source MSX emulator that aims for perfection > http://openmsx.sf.net/ > _______________________________________________ > MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
