Date   : Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:35:49 +0000
From   : samwise@... (samwise)
Subject: Entering a listing (or other text) into BeebEm

Can't help with Windows, but I do know that the Mac port of BeebEm
allows you to cut and paste directly into the emulator.

Peter.

2009/1/16 John Richardson <j.m.richardson@...>:
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 00:00, Jonathan Graham Harston
> <jgh@...> wrote:
>>
>> Save file as, for instance, files\hello.txt
>> Rename to files\hello to get rid of the extension
>> do MkImage disk.ssd files -type dfs
>>
>> ...after waiting for me to upload the bugfixed version of MkImage
>> that actually attaches I/O to the console when it runs as a
>> console application! :( :(
>>
>> May as well include a 'strip extsntions' option to remove step 2.
>
> Thanks Jonathan - for the reply and the utility. That's quite easy I
> suppose: being lazy I was hoping I'd missed something even easier.
> Printing to a text file from BeebEm has proved a very quick way of getting
> text out of the emulator. I was hoping it would be as quick going the other
> way.
> I've been using BeebEm/BASIC assembler to test out some 6502
> routines/algorithms. It's much easier to use the Beeb compared with some
> online 6502 emulator as one can then take advantage of BASIC & the OS
> routines to print out results, and generally write test harness code. I've
> been writing, annotating and storing my code fragments in Onenote, and was
> hoping for a quick(er) way to transfer.
> I still wonder about one of my other suggestions:
> 2) Perhaps use an app to send a sequence of key-presses to the active
> BeebEm window
> This could be a completely generic application. E.g. one had typed AUTO into
> the BASIC prompt, or perhaps had started up the Master 128 EDIT program...
> and then you get your text 'typed' in as if at the keyboard, with BeebEm as
> the active window.
> Does anyone know if such a general Windows utility exists? Or even if it
> did, is there something I haven't thought of which would make it unusable
> with BeebEm?
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