I have a little technical question: How does Sam ROM know whether the file
no.01 is DOS, or not? It doesn't blindly load anything there, is it? Does
"bootable" disk have some special contents in track 0, sector 1? Or possibly
the special contents are at track 4, sector 1? (I'd expect there is
something at track 0, sector 1, but I'm not sure what exactly. Please tell
me.)
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Mgr.(MSc.) Ales Keprt (also known as Aley)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:30 AM
Subject: RE: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games
Edwin Blink wrote:
Hey I've got Lerm assembler on take ! I'm sure there where
some things that where on tape
Shouldn't the archive aim to store software in its original format? Some
titles were released on both disk and tape, so it would make sense to
preserve both disk and tape images, and not just the most convenient
format.
Converting existing disk titles to tape files seems wrong to me, and would
also make them much less convenient for use on real machines. Of course,
I've nothing against new software being written out as tape images if
that's
what the author wants!
(my e-mail has been down recently, so apologies if I've missed anything
that
has already covered this)
until simcoupe has a 'replacement boot' feature (hint hint !)
that boots dos from a virtual drive when attemting to boot
from a nono bootable disk.
I've implemented a quick test version that does a temporary disk image
switch when attempting to boot from a non-bootable disk. It loads only
DOS
from the switched disk, returning to the original disk for the AUTO* file
search (if required). In the options you just specify the path of the
disk
image or .SBT file containing DOS. Does that fit your requirements?
It might even be nice if SimCoupe had a built-in DOS image so the option
could be enabled by default, to help out new users...
Si