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My god I'm not the only one!

alexkerhead wrote:

> That isn't what I am talking about, I was talking
> about picking that 5.25in disk up, popping it into
> the disk drive, and typing the commands to load it,
> and I was talking about "pressing" the tape play
> button after you type in load.

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. They make these cdt
files which makes it easier to transfer them to the proper
equipment - in this case a tape player. You simply hook it up
to a different device - in this case a sound card & some of
them were talking about taking their emulators to write back
through the sound card - so reading & writing is virtually the
same as the good ol' days!

And Disc drives? Well this has been going on for years - in
the CPC community - even when emulation was in it's early faze
you could get your 3" Disc drive (unique to the Amstrad
CPC/PCWs) & hook them up to an IBM compatable. One of my DOS
emulators does actual reading/writing to disks (so getting a
5.25" drive for the PC & working it in with my Current ones on
my CPC).

All really depending on where your comming from though. I'm
comming from a community which has been working years on these
things. Unfortunately I can't say much for their current
emulations - cause they don't seem to work on my PC.

> THese cannot be emulated, but sounds can, but it aint the same,
> trust me. I wouldn't be spending my money on these machines if
> the emulators were the same.

Naturally I agree of course, you just can't beat the real
deal.
 
Yes, various cables and interfaces to connect old equipment (if you can obtain it!) to newer equipment is common. Expansion cards like the CatWeasel also makes it possible to connect a "dumb" PC floppy and program the controller to read most foreign formats, but again it requires you to have a floppy of the correct physical dimension.
 
Now we just left the realm of emulation, because to emulate, you cant use the original equip, now your just better off getting the whole system..lol
 
Partial emulation then. If I'm not mistaken, the Commodore emulator VICE supports the XM1541 interface (at least in the Linux version) which means you can connect a floppy drive to your PC and access it from the emulator.
 
Now it becomes a matter of too much trouble setting up, when for the same time involved, you can mow grass and save for a computer to do the same thing..lol
 
carlsson said:
Since I almost never use the Amiga 500, I've considered putting it away in its box. I'd only use it to play a few games that are not Amiga 1200 compatible.
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Hmm, I just tried to load a few of my games on the 1200, and several don't run properly. More than I can remember even. I don't think the disks or computer has detoriated, so I should check on the 500 as well.
 
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