Chris White wrote: > your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright > owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal > purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless)
Are you 100% sure about this? The +D interface on the Spectrum was fairly well geared towards transferring tape based software to disk, and that seemed to be acceptable. Is that any different from what is being done when creating disk images? It's always been quite a grey area in emulation... > Please let it read them in REAL time , but not create IMAGES That'll be possible under Win9x, but I haven't found a way to do it under NT without modifying the kernel-mode floppy driver (the source is available so that may be possible). Now I've got the hard disk emulation working I was even playing with the (dangerous!) idea of having raw hard disk access! It would allow the same physical hard disk to be shared by the emulator and and a real SAM with the ATOM interface. Si
