Date   : Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:03:42 +0100
From   : Roy Collett <roy@...>
Subject: Re: INF and UEF formats

In article <50DA4D126823D411AE2600508B5E2B5A5C799C@...>,
Fewell, Steve <Steve.Fewell@...> writes
>Firstly, I'd like to say that I welcome both INF and UEF formats, and hope
>that they both stay around. Both have different uses, and I would welcome
>any emulator which is able to handle as many formats as possible.
>
> I like
>the idea on an emulator being able to run the DFS ROM exactly as it was on
>the BBC, and the low-level disk access routines being provided by the
>emulator code, instead of the emulator needing to provide it's own DFS ROM
>code.
>

I agree.

The primary function of an emulator is to emulate ONLY the hardware. The
ROM firmware and software being the original code. DFS and ADFS would be
used as on the original machines and the host system would only be used
to emulate the controller chip to map to a disk image on the host FS.

Other native host file formats are nice but they are not the original
machine warts and all.



Roy Collett  roy@...
New Southgate, London, England.