Chris Pile wrote: > When Si completes his Windows port (complete with sound and > accurate timing!!!)
Well, it's not me that's writing that part of it - Dave Hooper, Aley Keprt and Simon Cooke are involved with the sound side of things. Accurate timing will probably come in time, but probably at the cost of a small performance hit from a few more tests in the main Z80 loop. At the moment I've got the original spec values in, but am rounding the instruction timing value up to the next 8 before adding it. This still isn't accurate but gives better timing in some thing, especially Manic Miner that used to run far too fast! > developing for SAM under Simcoupe on the PC will be a breeze... It'll be good for the majority of development, but things will still need testing on a real SAM to make sure they work OK. SimCoupe is very good at behaving like a real SAM when the software does work on a real SAM, but there are certain fringe areas where it will behave differently. i.e. the SimCoupe disk system is a lot more timing tolerant that the real version, so any disk code would need more testing on a real SAM to make sure it works, even if it's fine under the emulator! That could probably be tightened up, but there'll still be no guarantee it'll work on the real SAM! Si
