From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2006-03-01 10:35:38
Hello,
* On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:02:31PM +0100 Ruud@baltissen.org wrote:
> > BTW: My impression is that the 'Commodore-related' PC software are
> > all running under DOS, sometimes W95 but never WinXP. Except for the
> > Vice emulators. Is that true?
> Vice is a different thing because with emulation there is no external
> device putting a pressure on you. OK, I know that the new version can
> handle external drives as well buy IMHO it was only possible by using the
> massive power of nowadays processors.
VICE accesses external devices via cbm4win/cbm4linux. That is, VICE does
not handle the IEC accesses itself, but uses the opencbm API for this.
> I wonder if it could be done with, let's say, a 100 MHz Pentium-1.
Well, I am successfully running cbm4win on a K6-2/400 on NT4 (one of my
test systems). Thus, yes, it is possible to run cbm4win on such low-end
hardware.
But notice: As long as the transfer takes place, I have to disable
multitasking and the interrupts on the Windows machine. The same goes
for cbm4linux.
As the SMI cannot be disabled on an x86, there is always the slight
chance that we will not be able to hold the timing. The probability is
much bigger on laptops.
> Really no Windows version of SC needed, I think.
You forget some points:
1. not everyone has an old spare PC.
2. with "advancing" PC technique, you will get more and more problems
installing DOS (or Win 95/98) on them. I have heard (!) people have
problems installing DOS on very large HDs.
Regards,
Spiro.
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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
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