Wolfgang Haller wrote: > to be honest, why should I emulate Atom when I have a SAM > with an original Atom-IF?
The same could be said about any SAM owner using SimCoup�! I admit the Atom support seems fairly pointless at first glance, particularly since it's no faster than using disk images. The original reason for adding it was just to enhance the emulated hardware support, so any Atom-enabled software could be used as normal. I'd never owned an Atom, so I was also curious to see how it was used - in a Try Before You Buy sorta way! ;-) Playing a certain multi-disk game from an emulated Atom is much more convenient than switching disk images during loading! Perhaps a better reason for having it is to use existing Atom hard disks with the emulator, to continue working as you always have. Colin's CF card reader makes it even more convenient (and reliable), allowing CF cards to be shared without a PC reboot to switch HDDs. I wanted to do the same with my SAM development environment, sharing a single CF card between my SAM and SimCoup�. Moving test code to my SAM has always been a pain, and the Atom/CF method eliminates the slow floppy transfers entirely. I can continue to develop most of it on SimCoup�, moving development to the SAM if needed (as was the case with the C64 SID emulation, where I could only test on my real SAM). Whether it's of any real use depends on how you use your SAM/Atom I suppose... Si
