Date   : Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:56:39 +0100
From   : Tony <kilm02@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb Em 1.41 on XP?

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:10:14 +0100, you wrote:

>Stuart hasn't done any visible work on pcBBC since (IIRC) 1998, and I 
>e-mailed him about 18 months ago as I had lost my original installation 
>disk (I had a registered version) and wanted a replacement - no reply. 
At 
>the time, pcBBC was far and away the best emulator on the market, and so
 I 
>really gave up on the whole BBC emulation scene, until about 6 months
ago, 
>when I discovered BeebEm, and found a superb emulator that works 
>beautifully under win2000 (work) and Win XP Pro (home). 
>
>On a semi-related topic, there seems to have been no work done on either
 
>"The BBC Lives!" and the "BBC Documentation Project" - the latter is a 
>huge shame, as there are some documents on there, marked as "coming
soon" 
>or "volunteers needed", which I'd really like to lay my hands on.  I
have 
>emailed Mark Usher to offer my assistance, but again - no response.
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>Back on topic - as far as I'm really concerned, the only new features
I'd 
>like to see on the emulator would be -
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>-> Support for an emulated teletext adapter, using a PC TV card
>-> Support for "virtual" hard drives under ADFS (see thread on this 
>subject recently)
>-> An emulated Domesday System !

This link is probably old news but i'll post it just in case it's of
any interest. Looks like copyright yet again will be the biggest
problem.

http://www.iconbar.com/news/features/camileon.html

Tony.

>
>I know that I'm probably pushing my luck with the last one, but then I'm
 
>sure that all the data could be squeezed onto a DVD or two, and that 
>software could emulate the Laserdisc control system, and use a DVD-Rom 
>drive to access it.  This of course depends on there being a set of 
>Domesday disks still in existence!
>
>Oh well - I'm happy with BeebEm for the time being, but we can always 
>dream!3
>
>All the Best
>
>Matt Forbes
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>        Subject:        Re: [BBC-Micro] Beeb Em 1.41 on XP?
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>Have you noticed that no-one seems to be doing any work any more on
>either of the good emulators, pcBBC and BeebEm?  What's going on?
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>Fiaz.
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>Matt.Forbes@... wrote:
>Hi John (and all) 
>
>As far as I know, 1.41 is the latest version, although sadly, no-one
>seems to be doing any more work on the emulator, and the websites are
>only available in a cached form on Google and other search engines. 
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>As for XP, I'm running 1.41 on XP Professional, and have had no
>problems whatseoever, without having to resort to any form of
>compatibility mode - what are the messages that you are seeing? 
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>All the best 
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>Matt Forbes 
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>"John Richardson" <j.m.richardson@...> 
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>Is anyone running BeebEm on XP? And is 1.41 the latest version?
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>Richard Gellman's old page no longer seems available and when I run
>1.41
>on XP, I get various error messages, even with Windows 98 compatibility
>on.
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>John.
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