On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Aley Keprt wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Andrew Collier wrote: > > The thing is, you have to remember that SimCoupe is a Sam emulator, it is > > not a Snakemania program. These features may suit your particular > > circumstances, but they would make SimCoupe act less like a real Sam and > > therefore I think they are a bad idea. > > These words are stupid.
Well this isn't exactly a promising start for a good conversation.... and not the first time from you either. I would get less irritated with you if you displayed less of an attitude problem. Please try to keep your name-calling off sam-users, or else I might join in... > The new features should be - of course - optional. > So you can turn it off. That's not the point... Any new "feature" added to the virtual machine, makes SimCoupe less realistic. And if SimCoupe doesn't try to realistically emulate the Sam, then why bother? > In addition, this stuff has nothing to do with > Snake Mania. On the contrary, this sub-thread started on Fri, 16 Jul 1999, when Aley Keprt wrote: > We play Snake Mania in SimCoupe in our arcede game tournaments > (http://get.to/hcc). > 100% (except me)people don't know Sam Coupe, so their first > contact with it is SimCoupe. > *ALL* people said that SimCoupe is a SHIT. > Why did they said this? > They all interestingly think that starting the game in SimCoupe > is very slow and stupid: > 1. start simcoupe and wait until it re-sets > 2. press F3 (open menu) > 3. weird open-menu system (DOS version looks like Unix) > 4. press num.pad 9 > 5. wait until it loads (10 secs) In other words, the *entire point* of this converstion is that your friends don't like SnakeMania's loading system. It doesn't matter to them that Snakemania is actually running under an emulator called SimCoupe; all they care about is starting to play the game, and they're irritated by the loading system. They'd prefer to be launching a DOS program called snkmania.exe and playing that, but they're stuck with SimCoupe so you're asking for these features to make the loading easier - isn't that the reason? Now, I notice that in another message you say you weren't asking for a double-click loading system. In that case, might I ask exactly what you had in mind? How are you expecting to load the correct disk image without either double clicking it in Windows, nor using the internal Open dialogues? But since you're the one who's been releasing the DOS versions of SimCoupe, I think you're the last person who should be complaining about its "weird open-menu system"... Now interestingly, nearly everything else you've been complaining about can already be fixed. You can avoid the Open dialogues by using the command line options or Win98 properties which people have already mentioned. And then if you can get hold of an image of the SC_AutoBOOT ROM[1], then that will save you the trauma of having to actually press the F9 key. You could even turn off the 50Hz syncronisation if the ten second loading time is still too much for you to bear. Andrew [1] The modifications are probably still copyrighted unfortunately... -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
