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| From: Rachy (all posts)
Date: 1998-09-17
Subject: Re: Snapshot files for emulators
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Ahojka!
Marko wrote:
> Don't forget the disk drives, which can further consist of modules. I
> think that the format should support an arbitrary number of disk drives
> attached to the bus.
That's correct.
> It looks good. Also, it would make sense to save the current video output
> to the snapshot. In that way, you would instantly have a correct picture
> on the screen, without having to run the emulation for one frame first.
> Then it would also be possible to write a converter that converts the
> emulator image to a PBM or GIF or whatever image.
It sounds silly for me. Most of the emulators have totally different output. Can you emulate border under PC-DOS? I can on Amiga. I see no reason, why to store even this, user should wait a frame... (Is that so hard to do?)
> It would also make sense to have an option for saving the ROM data to the
> image. The firmware actually is part of the state information, and this
> would avoid problems that could arise when loading the emulator state to
> a system that uses different ROM versions for the emulation.
Another wrong idea, I think. In my emulator ROM have patches, which work wrong on other emulators. There are no too much kind of ROM images, and those are almost the same, just minimal differences can be explored. (An other file-size rising feature?)
Bye:
Rajnai Almos
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