> > I don't use turbomon and I want Alt+F for emulator menu.
>
> Whad'ya mean you don't use TurboMON?! ;-)
You wrote that you can't assign Alt+F to "file" menu, since that shortcut
is used by TurboMON. So I said I don't used TurboMON.
I even don't know what is it.....
> > You probably didn't see SimCoupe later than 0.78. Did you?
> > I changed the F-functionality a bit.
>
> Only more recently - from what I remember WinCoupe is based on a mixture
of
> the 0.72 DOS and Unix sources.
This seems to be a problem.
0.78 is the latest version by Allan J.Skillman. There are several advantages
over 0.72.
Versions above 0.78 were compiled and distributed by me. There are several
new advantages. If you use 0.72 I consider this wrong.
> I've stayed away from F12 as Windows NT has a built-in feature that halts
> programs if F12 is pressed when running under a debugger, which would be
> most inconvenient for my testing (tho I can always use an alternative key
> for the debug version). Having reset as a shifted key might also make it
a
> bit safer than a plain key, tho I've yet to lose anything from hitting it
> accidentally.
>
> I was considering using some of the standard keys used by MAME and many
> other emulators:
> F9 Change frame skip on the fly
> F10 Toggle speed throttling
> F11 Toggle speed display
> Shift+F11 Toggle profiler display
>
> Any thoughts on using those?
I thing people don't change frameskip and some other options so often.
As you wrote Sam Coupe programs usually redraw whole screen, your
WinCoupe redraw whole screen, so there is no reason of changing frameskip.
Especially when there is no information about the fps in fullscreen, so
people
can hardly see what happens.
I found a bug: Joystick up and down are reversed.
Should be: 9=up, 8=down.
> :-) I do have an auto-boot option too, but it's not working well enough
yet
> to put on the menu. One of the Mnemodemos enables a border effect (for
> debugging?) if F9 is held down, so I'd like to find a way reliably boots
the
> disk but without holding it down for too long.
I would be nice to see autoboot when I insert new disk (not after reset).
The could be an option inside disk images to let the emulator knows
whether to boot that disk image automatically or not.
> > Or reversed. (right for menu, left for sam)
>
> But right-Alt is used for SAM Edit!
(The same as TurboMON.) I don't use SAM Edit, so I'd like to see an option
in WinCoupe to enable or disable right alt.
I have seen some software which uses two modes together (Sphera uses
mode 2 and mode 4 for lower part of the screen, Kapsa uses modes 3 & 4).
This worked well on SimCoupe. I hope it works in WinCoupe too.
> You sometimes have a way of wording things that come over as a bit
> provocative!
You're right. ;)
> > The thing which shlould be really optimised is floppy drive i/o.
>
> All disk images are read entirely into memory to give fast access and to
> work around not being able to selectively write to compressed files. Even
> the old uncached method might not be too bad under Windows as there's
always
> going to be a disk cache to help out!
This is not fully true. Windows' floppy drive caching is not as good as you
can
do it inside an application.
Also, I like to see direct writes into uncompressed images (to avoid data
loss
when application/system crashes - can happen anytime in Windows :((( ).
> The preliminary direct floppy access caches reads a track at a time
(single
> sector reads seem a lot slower than DOS!), but does writes directly to the
> disk to avoid losses if the disk is ejected suddenly. It's still a bit
> flakey and will probably benefit from your expertise in that area!
I bet on write-back cache which can speed up floppy writes, since the usual
one-sector writes are slow, and you never know how many sectors of
a particular tracks are to be written.
And what about printer?
Somebody asked me: "LLIST doesn't work in SimCoupe. Can you fix it?"
I though Allan already did this, since it is a really simple task.
Really simple task.
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