Even though I would never sell my SAM or the hardware / software I have left (I did sell a bunch as I simply had no room to store it), my SAM remains safely packed away as it's much more comfortable and convenient to use SimCoupe on my laptop with the added bonus that I can take my virtual SAM anywhere. In that respect, SimCoupe is a must for me. (Though I still get the hardware out from time to time).
One way is to create the hardware emulation as a plugin and only give it to people that have already bought a Mayhem for dev purposes only. I'm sure most people in the scene who will buy one can be trusted, but, as with any application, once it has been created there is always a very real danger of it leaking in to the wild and obviously you do not want to take that risk Colin, which is perfectly acceptable. Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 7:15:15 PM, you wrote: Andrew> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Colin Piggot wrote: >> I am glad to say that over the last few years I have been using SimCoupe a >> heck of a lot, as it does make a nice programming environment while i'm >> using other apps such as Paint Shop Pro on the PC, and i've still to try out >> Andrew's compiler on the PC sometime as well after hearing great things >> about it from Simon. Andrew> The application development chain is the one reason I regret there being Andrew> no Mayhem simulation in SimCoupe. Andrew> I honestly don't know if I'll ever have time to finish any more Sam Andrew> programming projects - though I'd certainly like to - but the whole thing Andrew> is much more efficient when I can run the whole edit-assemble-debug cycle Andrew> using GUI text editors, near-instant file transfer, simulation and a Andrew> debugger. Andrew> Even when I'd buy a Mayhem for final testing, and for running other Andrew> people's programs, I would still want to do the bulk of development in Andrew> simulation. I can't really imagine doing all my editing in Comet any more, Andrew> even if the assembly does take place at 20MHz now. The alternative of Andrew> making dsk files on my Mac, ftp'ing the image to my PC laptop, writing a Andrew> floppy disk, moving the disk to the Sam and booting it, is also too Andrew> horrible to contemplate doing on a very frequent basis. Andrew> I guess my perspective is coloured slightly, as I work in a sector of the Andrew> cpu design industry where it is absolutely essential practice to validate Andrew> your platform in simulation, before attempting to run on the hardware Andrew> device. Andrew> Andrew Andrew> -- Andrew> --- Andrew Collier ---- Andrew> ---- http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- Andrew> -- Andrew> r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
