Date   : Fri, 23 Feb 1996 13:58:20 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Chris Rae <clr1@...>
Subject: Re: Emulation systems

On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Roy Collett wrote:

> Hey all you heroic emulator writers. Let me tell you what's needed.

Uh-oh...

> S-ROM (What Sideways ROMs are loaded)
>     Files in Image format as Name.ROM (8K or 16K) images.

Why seperate files?!? Don't understand that.

> TAPE
>     Files in Image format as Name.TAP (?) In dicussion already I know.
>     Requires support for *TAPE etc. commands in OS.

Stating the obvious a tad.

> On the Beeb though, I think most files (games) which people will want to
> run would be far better off in some tape file format where the original
> file names and loaders can be preserved and files not duplicated accross
> different disk compilations. Also "PAGE" is kept at &0E00 (if DFS ROM's
> ARE NOT LOADED"). 

Yeah. Umm... I'm not flaming here but suggesting directories file 
extensions isn't really all that constructive - I mean they're hardly top 
of the list of difficult-things-about-writing-an-emulator.

I don't mean to be nasty but what were you meaning? If you've got real 
suggestions as to formats/etc then fine, air them, but these aren't.

I'm posting this to the group because I started this list many moons ago 
(now I think about it, it was quite a while) for people who are *writing* 
BBC emulators. I would much prefer (and I think the rest of you would 
too) to keep it this way and not turn it into a list for people who want 
us to hurry up and finish them, and post lists of things they want.

Sorry, maybe I'm having a bad day or something...

Chris

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