Um ... there isn't a Linux version of WinCoupe ... Anyway, WinCoupe does (or if it doesn't yet, will soon) support the PCs disk drives and use them like Sam drives. However, both emulators are perfectly usable without using the PCs disk drives ... because that's what .DSK and .SAD files are for. A .DSK file contains basically the entire contents of a Sam Coupe's floppy disk. And you can load the .DSK file into the emulator and it will 'read' the 'disk' and play the game or whatever. .SAD files are similar (I think they use compression so they are smaller than 800K -- .DSK files are ALWAYS 800K even if the 'disk' is mostly empty)
Not only that, but there are several utilities to convert actual SAM floppy disks into .DSK and .SAD files for use with emulators or for uploading to FTP sites, etc. So, to summarise: * Emulators and good and don't really need native floppy disk support * SimCoupe runs in MS-DOS and Linux and Un*x variants. There's also a MAC version if you're into that. * WinCoupe only runs on Windows but is superior in practically every way. (The sound emulation is amazing, but I would say that) d a v e ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 5:15 AM Subject: Re: SimCoupe > Dave Hooper wrote: > > If it's a reasonably powerful PC (probably a 166 MMX would be the minimum I > > suppose) then you could try WinCoupe because it's way better than SimCoupe. > > But it only runs in Win9x (also Nt and 2000 I think) so if you don't have > > Windows running on your system then don't bother investigating that ... > > > > d a v e > > I thought I read somewhere that the disk drives only work on the Linux > version (is that right?) An emulator's not going to be much use to me > unless the disk drives work. > > -- > James Gasson > > >
