Dave Whitmore wrote:
>Okay, someone yell at me. :-)
I won't yell at you. I only yell at people who are wrong... Actually, I
don't really yell at them, but the words don't come out quite right. :-)
As long as it's an option, you can do whatever the hell you like with
SimCoupe.
--
Stuart Brady
On the subject of autoboot, yep, I'm very much in favour so long as
it's optional. Ideally with a virtual hard drive if no disk is in fd1.
I don't think there's anything wrong in making improvments to an
emulated SAM in this way, so long as there are options to make it
behave authentically when ne
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
> I dont mind occasionally searching through directories for a file - you
> do that whatever program you're using - just the ability to double-click
> on something and *bam* there it is in SimCoupe, would be very nice
> indeed.
But you already can se
Andrew Collier wrote:
>
> Alright then, I'll ask you the same question I asked Aley: If you don't
> like the current methods of selecting the correct disk image, how would
> you prefer it to be done?
>
> All that clicking and typing is only really equivalent to hunting through
> a disk box, fin
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > The loading system - provided you stick to using disk images, rather than a
> > magic file store - is something *external* to the virtual Sam. Feel free to
> > change it, but also note that you already can double-click on a disk image,
> isn't an
Andrew Collier wrote:
>
> >They are just *emulator* enhancements to remove some of the awkward
> He was talking about enhancements to the emulated virtual machine, not the
> host environment.
If we're talking about the same thing:
> 1. fast reset
> 2. auto-boot SAD images (snapshots can do 1&
Andrew Collier wrote:
>
> >They are just *emulator* enhancements to remove some of the awkward
> He was talking about enhancements to the emulated virtual machine, not the
> host environment.
If we're talking about the same thing:
> 1. fast reset
fair enough, virtual machine - but as an opti
ake SimCoupe easier to use.
>
> The loading system - provided you stick to using disk images, rather than a
> magic file store - is something *external* to the virtual Sam. Feel free to
> change it, but also note that you already can double-click on a disk image,
> which loads SimCoupe, and press
>They are just *emulator* enhancements to remove some of the awkward
>tedium with using the emulator. On a Sam, you whip in the disk, push
>F9 ...on the emulator its "click - click - click - tap tap tap tap tap -
>click" ...already longer and more cumbersome ...Anything to speed it up
>is A GOOD
Andrew Collier wrote:
>
> > The new features should be - of course - optional.
> > So you can turn it off.
>
> That's not the point... Any new "feature" added to the virtual machine,
> makes SimCoupe less realistic. And if SimCoupe doesn't try to
> realistically emulate the Sam, then why bother
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:38:46PM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote:
> Now interestingly, nearly everything else you've been complaining about
> can already be fixed. You can avoid the Open dialogues by using the
> command line options or Win98 properties which people have already
> mentioned. And then
> Aley -- what's wrong with you? I admit that I might have been a bit
> trollish before (which I have apologised for, before you say anything),
> but "stupid" -- even _I'm_ not that bad...
Bad translation, maybe. Aley's English is better than our Czech, so I'm not
sure we can complain if it turns
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I would get less irritated with you if you displayed less of an attitude
>problem. Please try to keep your name-calling off sam-users, or else I
>might join in...
He is doing. I emailed him recently, and I got a fairly nic
From: Aley Keprt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I only must point that internal GUI's "open menu" is the only possibility
> how to start DSK images placed in different directory than SimCoupe.
No it isn't as the -fd1 commandline option accepts paths. The following
works fine from the
Start->Run dialog box
Aley Keprt wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Andrew Collier wrote:
>> The thing is, you have to remember that SimCoupe is a Sam emulator, it is
>> not a Snakemania program. These features may suit your particular
>> circumstances, but they would make SimCoupe act less like a real Sam and
>> therefore I
From: Dan Dooré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>BTW, Actually got a new submission to the Sam Webring
>(http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/webring) the other day - It's a pity
>the page it points to doesn't actually exist ;-)
I _knew_ there was something else to do in the YSRnRY revamp... I'll add my SAM
> And then if you can get hold of an image of the SC_AutoBOOT
> ROM[1],
[snip]
> [1] The modifications are probably still copyrighted unfortunately...
IIRC both Cookie and Edwin have produced auto-booting ROM images.
BTW, Actually got a new submission to the Sam Webring
(http://www.podboy.de
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Andrew Collier wrote:
> > The thing is, you have to remember that SimCoupe is a Sam emulator, it is
> > not a Snakemania program. These features may suit your particular
> > circumstances, but they would make SimCoupe act less like a rea
>That's not the point... Any new "feature" added to the virtual machine,
>makes SimCoupe less realistic. And if SimCoupe doesn't try to
>realistically emulate the Sam, then why bother?
Exactly!
If everyone added new features to SimCoupe that never even existed on
the real SAM, not only would you
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Andrew Collier wrote:
> >> > 3. start from non-SimCoupe directory
> >> > 4. faster disk emulation (DOS is poor, Win32 is faster)
> >> It would be nice to be able to double-click on a dsk image, and have
> >> SimCoupe load with that image in drive 1. You could then just press F
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Tim wrote:
> > > 3. start from non-SimCoupe directory
> > > 4. faster disk emulation (DOS is poor, Win32 is faster)
> > It would be nice to be able to double-click on a dsk image, and have
> > SimCoupe load with that image in drive 1. You could then just press F9 to
> > load t
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Andrew Collier wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
>
> > Summary:
> > Somebody (??) could add these functions to SimCoupe:
> > 1. fast reset
> > 2. auto-boot SAD images (snapshots can do 1&2)
>
> The thing is, you have to remember that SimCoupe is a Sam emulator,
>> > 3. start from non-SimCoupe directory
>> > 4. faster disk emulation (DOS is poor, Win32 is faster)
>> It would be nice to be able to double-click on a dsk image, and have
>> SimCoupe load with that image in drive 1. You could then just press F9 to
>> load the game.
>
>urm you can - At least in
> > 3. start from non-SimCoupe directory
> > 4. faster disk emulation (DOS is poor, Win32 is faster)
> It would be nice to be able to double-click on a dsk image, and have
> SimCoupe load with that image in drive 1. You could then just press F9 to
> load the game.
urm you can - At least in Windows
Andrew Collier wrote:
>It would be nice to be able to double-click on a dsk image, and have
>SimCoupe load with that image in drive 1. You could then just press F9 to
>load the game.
You can. "simcoupe -fd1 image.dsk" inserts image.dsk in floppy drive 1.
Use -fd2 for floppy drive 2. This should w
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
>
> > Summary:
> > Somebody (??) could add these functions to SimCoupe:
> > 1. fast reset
> > 2. auto-boot SAD images (snapshots can do 1&2)
>
> The thing is, you have to remember that SimCoupe is a Sam emulator, it is
> not a Snakemania program. These fea
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
> Summary:
> Somebody (??) could add these functions to SimCoupe:
> 1. fast reset
> 2. auto-boot SAD images (snapshots can do 1&2)
The thing is, you have to remember that SimCoupe is a Sam emulator, it is
not a Snakemania program. These features may suit you
> I agree with you wanting to keep your work available as a stand-alone
> package, but if we want the more general user to investigate
> SimCoupe, the installation should be as straight-forward as possible.
This is very interesting opinion.
I think not only instalation should be straight forward
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