Some of you who read comp.sys.sinclair may be aware of a recent thread in which Stuart Campbell (ex-YS writer) has been trying to get SimCoupe to run. Because some of his questions have come up before and may come up again, I put together a quick web page at http://mnemotech.ucam.org/newbie.html
Unfortunately, it seems that some of the sample .dsk images on my site are not working correctly. However, I suspect the problem is restricted to Windows... probably trying to do something clever behind the user's back - we just have to work out exactly what it is :) I've tried uploading, downloading, redownloading and reuploading the file at /downloads/samdos2.dsk.gz - I'm now pretty certain that the file my Mac downloads is exactly the same file as it uploaded. I'm also certain that the file is also correctly downloaded and ungzipped by Linux[1], and the file appears to be the same even on Windows98. However, on SimCoupe/MacOS the file works; on SimCoupe/DOS the file doesn't work (it gives "Loading Error" when I try to boot). I'd like people to help me identify (and perhaps fix) the problem by testing three things: Please download that file from the website, on as many different platforms as possible, and tell me whether or not they work. Also please download some of the MNEMOtech demos from /mnemotech.html, and tell me if they work on different platforms. Finally please download some of the same demos from ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/demos/ and tell me if they work on different platforms. Hopefully, if certain files fail under certain conditions, I might be able to work out exactly which combinations are to be avoided.... Thanks in advance, Andrew [1] Which probably indicates that Macgzip has been successfully tamed... -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
