David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Anyone alive out there? yup. although i've not been up to much (save for going to Malta for a week)
if anyone wants to test my little samdisk-alike that can read (and, in a matter of days, write) sam disks to .dsk files on hard drive, send me an email. from my small amount of testing, it seems to work on computers on which samtoms, samdisk and teledisk barf. but that might just be chance, and it might turn out my prog doesn't work on your pc either. also, coming very soon, a little utility that can read your old spectrum cassettes (played into the pc using your soundcard and, say, your old speccy cassette lead and a walkman) and convert them on-the-fly into .tap files (no need to sample first into a .voc file and run Z80's convert utility, which unregistered Z80 Spectrum Emulator users won't have anyway). it's basically finished, just need to neaten the edges a bit. it's a (win32) console app at the moment but that's no big deal. nice Windows version coming along when i have a bit more time. and Simon - i *am* working on the sound for the win32 simcoupe... just let me know what you need to know and when. dunno if you got my mail about the interface i'd be using (CSAASound), but it was wrong in several places so you can probably forget it for the time being. it'll be windows waveform or directsound (both) but it might be a tad processor intensive with all the 'accuracy' options turned up to full... turn them all to low and wincoupe-with-sound should run fine on a decent pentium i guess... or i could consider implementing a cheesy inaccurate midi-based saa emulation, especially for low-spec machines, a bit like the original by aley keprt. but that'll come much later. -- dave
