> I agree with you wanting to keep your work available as a stand-alone > package, but if we want the more general user to investigate > SimCoupe, the installation should be as straight-forward as possible.
This is very interesting opinion. I think not only instalation should be straight forward. Here I come with my experience: We play Snake Mania in SimCoupe in our arcede game tournaments (http://get.to/hcc). 100% (except me)people don't know Sam Coupe, so their first contact with it is SimCoupe. *ALL* people said that SimCoupe is a SHIT. Why did they said this? They all interestingly think that starting the game in SimCoupe is very slow and stupid: 1. start simcoupe and wait until it re-sets 2. press F3 (open menu) 3. weird open-menu system (DOS version looks like Unix) 4. press num.pad 9 5. wait until it loads (10 secs) I must say this is normal for me, since I do know Sam and SimCoupe, but occasional users have big problems with this "procedure". Also, it is not possible to enter the SAD filename from command line when you have your SAD in different directory than SimCoupe's one - it simply doesn't work. Summary: Somebody (??) could add these functions to SimCoupe: 1. fast reset 2. auto-boot SAD images (snapshots can do 1&2) 3. start from non-SimCoupe directory 4. faster disk emulation (DOS is poor, Win32 is faster) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aley [eili] Keprt - student, programmer (multimedia soft. etc.) phone: +420-68-538 70 35 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://get.to/aley ----------------------------------------------------------------
