Andrew Collier wrote: > > >They are just *emulator* enhancements to remove some of the awkward <snip> > He was talking about enhancements to the emulated virtual machine, not the > host environment.
If we're talking about the same thing: <quote> > 1. fast reset fair enough, virtual machine - but as an option controlled by the host environment, only taking effect if a setting was set. > 2. auto-boot SAD images (snapshots can do 1&2) thats not neccessarily a virtual machine enhancement - the host emulator environment can when starting (if set) 'fake' pushing the F9 key in the virtual machine (presumably)... the virtual machine remains the same - the F9 push (which would normally come from the keyboard) comes from the host environment code - and that'd allow you to set different preferences - e.g. autoboot on reset, call0, etc. etc. > 3. start from non-SimCoupe directory > 4. faster disk emulation (DOS is poor, Win32 is faster) and those two are both host environment. </quote> > Changes to the virtual machine are a bad thing. They would make SimCoupe > unrealistic, and emulating something which never existed. Changes to the > external GUI can be a good thing, if they make SimCoupe easier to use. > > The loading system - provided you stick to using disk images, rather than a > magic file store - is something *external* to the virtual Sam. Feel free to > change it, but also note that you already can double-click on a disk image, > which loads SimCoupe, and press F9, just like on a real Sam. Where exactly > does your "click - click - click - tap tap tap tap tap - click" come in? > Exaggerating doesn't exactly help your argument... Being condescending doesn't help yours. Bearing in mind that I've never done that.... I was referring to using the GUI on the DOS version of SimCoupe - the only version I've ever used, in which it certainly isn't an exagerration.. The only options were to use the internal GUI, which involves a lot of clicking & typing (tapping) (especially if the DSK image is in a different directory) or to type it on the command line ..which is a lot of typing (tapping)... "click - click - click - tap tap tap tap tap - click" would only be 4 mouse clicks & 5 keypresses.... If anything, thats an understatement. Martin Fitzpatrick -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 11077801 AOL/CServeIM: Flupert
