Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games

[Wolfgang Haller]

Edwin Blink wrote: I think that in the real world a DOS >is< on each disk (or at least 98% or so). Most of them probably But I rember a lot of disks by individuals that didn't, to save on those precious 10K I am such an individual, because I use a harddisk and with it autoboot ROM. So each Record 10K more for programs...... :-) Having 32KB ROM full of rarely used stuff instead of DOS is one of the biggest mistakes of Sam designers. Don't forget that SAM was (technically) lauched as a Tape machine. But if they put a a compressed basic (and maybe a dos) into the ROM and it was just there to unpack it to RAM and execute it then things could have been a lot easier for MGT then they didn't need to send out all those rom packets and maybe didn't need to call in the recievers. Hmmm.... I thought the lack of diskdrives in the beginning was because they weren´t available at this time? I never had loaded from tapes with the real SAM. But I like the TAP format for Spectrum emulators as for multiload programs it contains all you need in a very small size. Another advantage is less entries in the directory if it would be for the SAM. I think that booting from a virtual disk would be very good. Wow, who will implement it? :-) Maybe if we ask Simon nicely. He will ;-) Hello Simon. I would ask you nicely if you see a chance to create such a virtual disk. And I think I am not the only one.... Edwin Wolfgang