Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Dave Whitmore
What are the chances of making a DSK or SAD image (or altering an existing one) so that when clicked on in Windows, it'll launch the emulator and autoboot? Dave

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Tim P
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote: What are the chances of making a DSK or SAD image (or altering an existing one) so that when clicked on in Windows, it'll launch the emulator and autoboot? Good I'd hope. It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with the DOS SimCoupe and

happy Birthday....

2000-09-27 Thread Tim P
So, after the spectacular 10th Birthday celebrations, anyone got any plans to do something this year? (I was driven past the wickerman a few weeks ago, was almost tempted to go there for lunch...) Tim

RE: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Tim P wrote: It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with the DOS SimCoupe and have the it run with the disk image specified on the commandline. Does Si's windows version have a similar commandline? It does have a '-disk1 path' option that can be used in the same way. It also has

RE: happy Birthday....

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Tim P wrote: So, after the spectacular 10th Birthday celebrations, anyone got any plans to do something this year? Wasn't there some mention of doing something in November? Last venue mentioned was oop narth somewhere (Manchester ish?), but I don't think much more was mentioned. It's been

Re: happy Birthday....

2000-09-27 Thread David L
It was i... and if i get chance, may see if there's any chance of doing it... - Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:01 PM Subject: RE: happy Birthday Tim P wrote: So, after the spectacular 10th

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Si, you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate F9. If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it autoboot, without changing ROM code. After these two (or maybe more, but I hope it will be constant times) readings from that i/o port, you don't need to

RE: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate F9. That's how I did it :-) If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it autoboot, That was the plan, tho it seemed to require a couple of hundred to do it, which seemed strange.

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: you can simply wait until keyboard port is read. Then you can simulate F9. That's how I did it :-) If you do this twice (maybe more), it should be enough to let it autoboot, That was the plan, tho it seemed to require a couple of hundred to do it, which seemed

RE: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: If you autoboot non-bootable disk, you simply get no dos. So what? Just for neatness really - if it knows it's not bootable then there's no point in trying. I have CD-ROM as my first boot choice in the BIOS on my PC. If there's a regular data CD in it it'll continue on to

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: If you autoboot non-bootable disk, you simply get no dos. So what? Just for neatness really - if it knows it's not bootable then there's no point in trying. I think we are talking about nothing. (How do you Engishs call this?) We can continue with talking about how

RE: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: I think we are talking about nothing. (How do you Engishs call this?) We can continue with talking about how orange is orange, as Al Bundy did in that famous tv programme. Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally started an argument on IRC the

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: I think we are talking about nothing. (How do you Engishs call this?) We can continue with talking about how orange is orange, as Al Bundy did in that famous tv programme. Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally started an argument on