Date   : Sat, 26 May 2001 07:25:30 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Thomas Harte <t.harte@...>
Subject: Re: Tape reading/writing

>  No, my comment was about the format being a year old and not being used
>  much by emulators nor noticed in other ways. That as I said is nothing
>  new...

Actually its used by my Electron emulator, two in development, BeebEm and
B-Em. That constitutes every Acorn 8bit emulator that anyone has worked on
since the UEF format was invented except pcBBC. The Stairway to Hell which,
at an estimate, deals in at least 60% UEF's logged 12mb of downloads last
week. At around a 30kb average file size, thats quite a few. I personally
had 10 odd downloads of the utility for converting tapes to UEFs in the same
week.

What is your definitely of 'used much'? And how much do you expect people to
care about a tiny little niché file format?

-Thomas





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