RE: Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-13 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: > This was a joke? > Uncompressing 800kb file isn't a matter of milliseconds on > low-end SimCoupe machines (200MHz CPU). It's only done when inserting a disk - not as tho it's part of the main emulation loop - so what's the problem? Perhaps we could add a '-impatient' command-

Re: Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-13 Thread Aley Keprt
> Aley Keprt wrote: > > Yes, I suppose this feature has gone when you added GZip > > support where you don't know the size of uncompressed image. > > Well, for a general size test you could gzseek to a position large > enough to cover the files you're likely to be handling, and see what it > retu

RE: Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-11 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: > Yes, I suppose this feature has gone when you added GZip > support where you don't know the size of uncompressed image. Well, for a general size test you could gzseek to a position large enough to cover the files you're likely to be handling, and see what it returns as the off

Re: Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-11 Thread Aley Keprt
> Jarek Adamski wrote: > > 1. Does SAM emulators support the "MV - CPC" format > > for "*.DSK" files? (Used e.g. to store ZX+3 disks.) > > No, 'fraid not - should be easy enough to knock up a conversion utility > for standard format disks though. > > I do remember looking at using a CPC disk for

RE: Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-10 Thread Simon Owen
Jarek Adamski wrote: > 1. Does SAM emulators support the "MV - CPC" format > for "*.DSK" files? (Used e.g. to store ZX+3 disks.) No, 'fraid not - should be easy enough to knock up a conversion utility for standard format disks though. I do remember looking at using a CPC disk format for protecte

Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-09 Thread Jarek Adamski
Hi! My qestions are: 1. Does SAM emulators support the "MV - CPC" format for "*.DSK" files? (Used e.g. to store ZX+3 disks.) 2. What will happen when I "insert" a 720kB raw ".DSK" diskimage? (I would like it to be seen as 2 sides of 80 tracks of 9 sectors [1..9] of 512 bytes.) BTW I've made