Date   : Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:11:24 -0700 (PDT)
From   : "F. Haroon" <haroonpd@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb Em 1.41 on XP? - try ModelB ?

Wait till the Master emulation from the same author comes out and if
BeebEm hasn't got it's act together by then I'll switch.

Fiaz.


--- Mark Cooke <mpc@...> wrote:
> If you haven't tried ModelB, I would.  It's very good, and it brought
> back a few memories playing tetrapods, starship command and co again.
> 
> One day when I get some time, I am going to see about adding tube
> support to it for enhanced elite, but earliest that would be is
> October.
> 
> ModelB runs about '9-10MHz' with the speed limit turned off on my
> 2GHz
> P4 laptop, so there's plenty of spare horsepower for a tube
> emulation.
> 
> 'QuickLaunch' is a great feature too.  Rough edges are having to edit
> the ini file for things like sideways ram and additional roms, but as
> Tom says in the commentary, they're not often changed items.
> 
> Mark
> 
> ModelB: http://www.tomseddon.plus.com/beeb/beeb.html
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 12:10, Matt.Forbes@... 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.
> > 
> > Back on topic - as far as I'm really concerned, the only new
> features
> > I'd like to see on the emulator would be -
> > 
> > -> 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 !
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         
> >         To:      
> > bbc-micro@...
> >         cc:        
> >         Subject:      
> > Re: [BBC-Micro] Beeb Em
> > 1.41 on XP?
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > Fiaz.
> > 
> >
>
> > 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.
> 
> > 
> > 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? 
> > 
> > All the best 
> > 
> > Matt Forbes 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "John Richardson" <j.m.richardson@...> 
> > Sent by: Majordomo List Manager <majordomo@...> 
> > 28/07/2003 17:20 
> > 
> >         
> >         To:        <bbc-micro@...> 
> >         cc:         
> >         Subject:        [BBC-Micro] Beeb Em 1.41 on XP?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is anyone running BeebEm on XP? And is 1.41 the latest version?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > John.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Mark Cooke <mpc@...>
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