Dnia 00-10-06 Aley Keprt pisze:
My favourite configuration is a hard drive, which contains all
Sam files on it, not divided into 800kb segments (virtual
dskettes). Again NOT divided.
What about real hardware?
Maybe some little DOS can be done in emulator, so it don't
waste too much memory
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Simon Cooke wrote:
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, I don't think so.
If there's no auto* file, it can't boot. You probably misunderstand that
the algo above
is designed to boot diskettes without DOS.
Diskettes with games (and usually very special version of
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You should perhaps restate your argument -- I didn't quite understand
you.
Though if I'm reading this correctly, you should note that I wrote the
copy
protection software for Parallax, cracked more games than I care to
remember
(for my own personal
Dnia 00-09-29 Ian Collier pisze:
You can use whatever filetypes you like - have one for
autoboot and one for not-autoboot if you really want (after
all, what's in a name? It's just an entry in the registry) -
but I'm not sure I see the point in the not-autoboot one so
one might as well just
Dnia 00-10-02 Howard Price pisze:
Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
What is it?
But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked
my geeky interest.
They are only if you define them. I defined them as value
smaller (as absolute) than smalest value having
Dnia 00-09-29 Ian Collier pisze:
Lim (n-0) n / n^2 = 0/0 = infinity
because n/n^2 == 1/n
Try
Lim (n-0) n / (n+n^2)
and you get 1 as result.
--
Yarek.
Dnia 00-09-29 Ian Collier pisze:
You can use whatever filetypes you like - have one for
autoboot and one for not-autoboot if you really want (after
all, what's in a name? It's just an entry in the registry) -
but I'm not sure I see the point in the not-autoboot one so
one might as
Dnia 00-10-02 Howard Price pisze:
Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
What is it?
But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked
my geeky interest.
They are only if you define them. I defined them as value
smaller (as absolute) than smalest
Jarek Adamski wrote:
1. Insert disk selected by user.
2. Load booted DOS snapshot.
3. Press F9.
I do like this idea - would be very handy to restore common working
environments etc. Just needs snapshot support implementing, and when
combined with the existing autoboot (and fast reset)
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or, if it is possible, state after booting DOS can be saved as
snapshot (this means with DOS in memory and modified some system
variables), then:
1. Insert disk selected by user.
2. Load booted DOS snapshot.
3. Press F9.
I'd add only if there is
Simon Cooke wrote:
Make that only if track 4, sector 1 contains BOOT (last
character has bit 7 set) as bytes 124-127.
That'll handle games too.
Thanks for the info Si - never knew about that signature. I was gonna dig
that out of the SAMDOS/MasterDOS source but I'd not got around to it.
Simon Cooke wrote:
Make that only if track 4, sector 1 contains BOOT (last
character has bit 7 set) as bytes 124-127.
That'll handle games too.
Thanks for the info Si - never knew about that signature. I was gonna dig
that out of the SAMDOS/MasterDOS source but I'd not got around to
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or, if it is possible, state after booting DOS can be saved as
snapshot (this means with DOS in memory and modified some system
variables), then:
1. Insert disk selected by user.
2. Load booted DOS snapshot.
3. Press F9.
I'd add only
Aley Keprt wrote:
No, I don't think so. If there's no auto* file, it can't boot.
Simon Cooke's method is generic and does not rely on what the bootable code
actually is - it'll be what the ROM bootstrap checks for before running the
code, and if it's missing you'll get a 'No DOS' error. It
Hello my turn now :)
Si Wrote
I guess as long as sector 1 of track 4 is a regular 512 bytes in size, and
contains the BOOT signature and some bootable code, it doesn't matter what
the code is or what the rest of the disk looks like. SimCoupe only needs
to
be concerned whether the signature
Aley Keprt wrote:
No, I don't think so. If there's no auto* file, it can't boot.
Simon Cooke's method is generic and does not rely on what the bootable
code
actually is - it'll be what the ROM bootstrap checks for before running
the
code, and if it's missing you'll get a 'No DOS' error.
Chris White wrote:
Trk4:Sec1 , can be anysize you wish ( think one of mine was 1024 ,
can't remeber which ) ,
Ah, ok. I didn't think regular DOS would touch anything except 512 byte
sectors - does it actually read in the full sector, or just the first part?.
Quick check of Prince of Persia
Hello my turn now :)
Si Wrote
I guess as long as sector 1 of track 4 is a regular 512 bytes in size,
and
contains the BOOT signature and some bootable code, it doesn't matter
what
the code is or what the rest of the disk looks like. SimCoupe only
needs
to
be concerned whether the
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, I don't think so.
If there's no auto* file, it can't boot. You probably misunderstand that
the algo above
is designed to boot diskettes without DOS.
Diskettes with games (and usually very special version of DOS) can be
booted
classically,
i.e. you
From: Jarek Adamski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dnia 00-09-28 Aley Keprt pisze:
So why cannot we accept any (numeric) answer?
0*anything=0
infinite*anything=infinite
This implies that 0=infinite.
Well...
0 * anything = 0
only when this anything isn't infinite, and
infinite * anything =
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers,
Cantor sets, and Aleph^0, Aleph^1, Aleph^2, etc.
The transfinite ordinals are ordinals, not numbers; and the Alephs
are cardinals, not necessarily numbers either.
Also, the fact that you can have positive and negative zero...
In what branch of mathematics? I've never heard of it.
I guess Simon's talking about 1's complement numbers, or sign+magnitude
binary representation of -ve numbers.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:12:08AM +0100, Andrew Gale wrote:
I guess Simon's talking about 1's complement numbers, or sign+magnitude
binary representation of -ve numbers.
In that case that's two different representations of the same number,
rather than two different numbers. (Despite what the
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers,
Cantor sets, and Aleph^0, Aleph^1, Aleph^2, etc.
The transfinite ordinals are ordinals, not numbers; and the Alephs
are cardinals, not necessarily numbers
Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked my geeky
interest.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers,
Cantor sets, and
Hey man, your subscribe is longer than your message!
Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked my geeky
interest.
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At 16:31 02/10/2000 +0200, you wrote:
Hey man, your subscribe is longer than your message!
Don't I know it! - Nothing to do with me - I'm forcefully appended by a
central 'bureacracy computer', cos I work for the council. They think that
anything I send over E-mail might get them into court.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:42:08PM +0100, Tim P wrote:
If so you just need to get it to autoboot. I remember imc posting a patch
to the ROM image that would make it do just that. I appear to have lost
the email now though.
I did indeed.
-
Date: Wed, 21
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:03:29AM +0100, Simon Owen wrote:
Dave Whitmore wrote:
would it be possible to alter a DSK image, to another filetype with a
different extension that could be recognised by Windows (or another
GUI O/S) to launch Sim Coupe, and in turn boot itself.
You can use
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:29:11AM +0100, Howard Price wrote:
This is a 'how many angels can dance on the head of a pin' innit?
'Dividing into zero, equally-sized parts'. Never gonna happen, except in
my beloved school dinners.
With 0/0 you are dividing zero into zero equally-sized parts,
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Frode Tenneboe wrote:
Actually, the answer is depends...on what mathematics is involved.
Infinity is probably not correct answer in any of the
mathematical directions I know of.
Lim (n-0) n / n^2 = 0/0 = infinity
This is not what we wanted,
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:35:51PM +0200, Aley Keprt wrote:
This is not what we wanted, since 0/0 is not lim0/0.
0/0 is undefined - it can be anything. But we could define it as the
limit of some operation x/y where x and y both tend to 0. This isn't
*the* definition, but it is *a* definition.
And I mean immutable, not commutable, don't I?
-tob
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Aley Keprt wrote:
zero divided by zero was. We had people arguing for '0/x = 0', others for
'x/x = 1' and the rest as 'x/0 = undefined'.
If you assume that all of the above are true and commutable, you must also
assume that on the graph where these equations drawn, the point x=0 is
where
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:05:58PM +0100, Howard Price wrote:
Right that's sorted. Who's up for square root of minus one? No i's in the
answer please.
j [engineer's answer]
imc (no, not an engineer)
I'll elaborate on my original question. What I was trying to say was,
would it be possible to alter a DSK image, to another filetype with a
different extension that could be recognised by Windows (or another
GUI O/S) to launch Sim Coupe, and in turn boot itself. In my mind, the
emulator (and
--
- Original Message -
From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: Console Coupe
I'll elaborate on my original question. What I was trying to say was,
would it be possible to alter a DSK image, to another filetype
Dave Whitmore wrote:
would it be possible to alter a DSK image, to another filetype with a
different extension that could be recognised by Windows (or another
GUI O/S) to launch Sim Coupe, and in turn boot itself.
Yes - you can set up an associated application to be run when you
double-click
Aley Keprt wrote:
You don't need any special software to do this, as soon as Si
re-enables his autoboot option.
I found it does already work in the latest released version, and just needs
a '-autoboot 1' option added to the command-line along with the -disk1 disk
path.When I tried it last
Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally
started an argument on IRC the other day by bringing up the question of
what
zero divided by zero was. We had people arguing for '0/x = 0', others for
'x/x = 1' and the rest as 'x/0 = undefined'. Perhaps we should do the
The answer is infinity...
-Original Message-
From: Howard Price [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:29 AM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Console Coupe
Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally
started
Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally
started an argument on IRC the other day by bringing up the question of
what
zero divided by zero was. We had people arguing for '0/x = 0', others
for
'x/x = 1' and the rest as 'x/0 = undefined'. Perhaps we should
Title: RE: Console Coupe
It has a real answer too usually - crash'n'burn
-Original Message-
From: Aley Keprt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 28 September 2000 12:10
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Console Coupe
Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The answer is infinity...
Actually, the answer is depends...on what mathematics is involved.
Infinity is probably not correct answer in any of the
mathematical directions I know of.
-Frode
My A-levels maths teacher tried explaining unreal numbers to me.. I never
did get my head around them!
-Original Message-
From: Frode Tenneboe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:26 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: RE: Console Coupe
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From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:26 PM
Subject: RE: Console Coupe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The answer is infinity...
Actually, the answer
yes
-Original Message-
From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:41 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Console Coupe
What was the question? 0/0?
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Aley Keprt wrote:
What was the question? 0/0?
Yes.
Of course I forgot the 4th option of 0/0 = 42...
Si
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Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:45 PM
Subject: RE: Console Coupe
Aley Keprt wrote:
What was the question
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote:
What are the chances of making a DSK or SAD image (or altering an
existing one) so that when clicked on in Windows, it'll launch the
emulator and autoboot?
Good I'd hope. It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with
the DOS SimCoupe and
Tim P wrote:
It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with the DOS
SimCoupe and have the it run with the disk image specified on the
commandline. Does Si's windows version have a similar commandline?
It does have a '-disk1 path' option that can be used in the same way. It
also has
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From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:57 PM
Subject: RE: Console Coupe
Tim P wrote:
It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with the DOS
Aley Keprt wrote:
you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate F9.
That's how I did it :-)
If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it autoboot,
That was the plan, tho it seemed to require a couple of hundred to do it,
which seemed strange.
Aley Keprt wrote:
you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate
F9.
That's how I did it :-)
If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it
autoboot,
That was the plan, tho it seemed to require a couple of hundred to do it,
which seemed
Aley Keprt wrote:
If you autoboot non-bootable disk, you simply get no dos.
So what?
Just for neatness really - if it knows it's not bootable then there's no
point in trying.
I have CD-ROM as my first boot choice in the BIOS on my PC. If there's a
regular data CD in it it'll continue on to
Aley Keprt wrote:
If you autoboot non-bootable disk, you simply get no dos.
So what?
Just for neatness really - if it knows it's not bootable then there's no
point in trying.
I think we are talking about nothing.
(How do you Engishs call this?)
We can continue with talking about how
Aley Keprt wrote:
I think we are talking about nothing.
(How do you Engishs call this?)
We can continue with talking about how orange is orange, as Al Bundy
did in that famous tv programme.
Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally
started an argument on IRC the
Aley Keprt wrote:
I think we are talking about nothing.
(How do you Engishs call this?)
We can continue with talking about how orange is orange, as Al Bundy
did in that famous tv programme.
Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally
started an argument on
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