Posted By
SVS
on 2010-10-17
08:24:45
 |  Re: Plus/4 2.0
Friends,
maybe somebody went off-topic by writing here his (our) secret dreams over Plus4.
What I meant by starting this discussion, was: does is worth to have some links between program code and emulator?
This *would not* modify the standard machine, nor its features!
If you, like me, use emulator, I suppose you switch it to faster mode when you have to perform long unattended operations, and even you switch it to 200% speed when use quite slow programs.
If an unused Plus4 memory address is set by emulator with its current speed, the program could test it and selfset according to the value it finds. If program runs in a real Plus4 it will find standard (unmodified) value and thus does nothing.
It is easy to suppose the benefits of this: for example, as said, in the time preservation (a watch will keep correct time with any emulator speed).
In conclusion: I don't want to ask a modification of our dear Plus4 HW and SW. Simply since we already use emulators, we can gain more benefits.
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