> Aley Keprt wrote: > > The last big things I added were 32bit sound support, and GZ-packed disk > > images > > (what Si ignored, and made his own standard - oooh like Microsoft.....). > > Are you saying that the .SDF format was not needed? Most people prefer > .DSK images for regular format disks (which is the majority of SAM stuff), > and ALL the rest CAN be covered by .SDF. So, why is it we need .SAD? :-P
No no. I didn't talk about SDF. I talked about your disk i/o module, what you programmed to support DSK and SAD. You did it on your own, although you could use my source. I don't understand why you still talk about SDF. I think everybody knows what is it, and why is it. But there aren't any utils which can be used to make SDF from original diskettes, so we can't use it. So you still AGAIN and AGAIN (stupidly) ask, why do we need SAD? We need SAD since, we can't use SDF so simply. Generally I don't like DSK, since there's no file header and the same extension is used by tens other emulators. Also, it doesn't cover all my diskettes, since it assumes 80 tracks. I use 84 tracks often (840KB/disk). SDF is good, but I have never seen a public converter real_diskette->image_file. SAD has file header, can support 80 and other number of tracks, and has several usable utilities, incl. automatic GZ packer for SAD files, and DSK<-->SAD converter (2sad). Everything is free, public, and with sources. So that's it. > I didn't ignore your changes - I started with a version that happened not to > include anything you'd done. I've been working on the new version on and > off since about March 99, and at least some of your changes were later than > that. When I did add sound support I used Dave Hooper's SAASOUND module > because it was Windows friendly and ultimately more portable - as well as > being extremely accurate. I've also added support for zipped and gzipped > images using ZLIB, which covered SAD version 2. Yes. And you forgot to say that you use completely different keyboard mapping, just to ensure nothing is too compatible. I mean 1. you don't support US keyboard 2. you changed F1-F12 key functions So you work like Microsoft. You do a very good output, but ignoring everything done by others, and giving thousands or "reasons" why this and that was ignored.
