----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:05 PM Subject: RE: Some news...
> 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 > > The Atom emulator does have a use as you can write programs which select one dsk image after another. In effect electronically changing diskettes from within the program with the 'record' command. I use this to analyse data spread over a number of diskettes, or rather DSK files. Ian
