Nahhh, your missing the point. I know the emulator is basically perfect, but its just not like having the real thing sitting there (I trust you have got the real thing as the rom is still copyrighted and hence the emulator is only legal to those with a sam). Dont have the floppies problem with an Atom HD, screen display is fine, especially if you do the shadow fix - Get issue 1 of Sam Revival for full details on that. Quazar surround sound, gotta love things like stratosphere (even if it is a touch hard :D ). Its like, I can play all the arcade games I want on MAME, so why have i built a full size cabinet in my garage so i can buy the Arcade PCB's? Am I just mad, probably. But still emulators just dont have the same appeal to me. On the point of a debugger, ive already got one for the actual sam, TurboMon, now who wrote that? :) (And yes its an original)
A. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Winkless, Geoff Sent: 16 August 2002 09:37 To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Linux Format > What i bet it doesnt say is, if you really want to enjoy this > machine - try and locate one on ebay :D Nothing beats the > real thing. Actually I disagree. The emulator is now fast, accurate and featured enough that it's far easier to code than using the sam ever was. Using Comet in fast mode (at 300% or so) is absolutely marvellous. Once Si gets his real-time hardware debugger sorted things would become even easier. No searching for (or switching!) floppies, no problems with dodgy cables (I guess that was my fault rather than Sam's :) and in a window too, so I can have the z80 timing reference (it's been a while, ok? :) right next to the code screen. Geoff
