Ian Spencer wrote: > I've had great fun playing with the Atom disk facility of > Simcoupe V090 Beta and BDOS1.5 seems to work just fine with > the emulated ATOM.
:-) > there doesn't seem to be many real advantages to using .dsk's > in an 'Atom environment'. True - disk images already give extra speed and convenience, which would probably have been the main reasons for SAM owners buying an Atom. The feature was mainly added to SimCoupé for completeness, so hopefully existing Atom owners can continue to work in a familiar environment. The use of disk images to form the hard disk mainly came from a way to compress the hard disk without silly overheads, by taking advantage of the fact BDOS accesses it in disk-sized chunks. Main advantages: being able to add/remove records easily, and efficient use of disk space for large disks (when using compressed floppy disk images). Disadvantages: removing disks can re-order the record number (the main complaint!), it's tied in to BDOS so no other programs driving the Atom would currently work, and there's no user-interface for managing the files, so users must manually move files into the directory. Support for uncompressed, fixed-sized hard disk images (as used by some other emulators) is coming soon. The current image-based method will probably remain, but the new method will be recommended for most users. > is there any plan to get BDOS working with Masterbasic or am > I the only Sam programmer who uses Andy's super extensions. Not that I know of, tho Martijn Groen or Edwin Blink should know whether it's actually feasible... Si
