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| whatisk:
I'm looking at adding a Commodore64 Emulator (Winvice) to my cab to play some of the games that I played way back when I actually owned a C64. Just wondering how people have gotten around the games that are on 2 disks. What are you doing when asked for a disk change? Is it possible to mount disk 2 onto a second virtual drive through the front-end or a batch file (I'm using Mamewah)? Cheers. |
| Mister Badger:
Please bare my 'Newbie' status in mind before reading this post; but in so far as I can tell it isn't possible. I'd very much like to be proved wrong though. I tried to get around this myself with the game 'Creatures 2' by placing the second disk image for the game in the emulated Commodore's second 1541 disk drive (device 9). Unfortunatly though, the 64 doesn't automatically search all available drives for the next disk like an Amiga does. I think it's because the CBM64 actually used double sided disks, i-e games that comprise of two D64 images are actually taken from only one physical disk, hence the game isn't programed to search for side B on another drive as it would be physically impossible for it to be there.. I'd suggest looking for CRT (Cartridge) images of games where possible - It solves this problem with Flimbo's Quest and Myth for example, though of course not every game came out on this format. You also might try looking here http://www.fairlight.to/tools/pc.html, Fairlight have a massive amount of CBM64 emulation utilities so there might be something of use to you there. Hope I've not confused the issue too much + Good luck, Pete |
| whatisk:
Thanks very much for the response Mister Badger. I'll keep looking around and post back here if I find a way around it. |
| Gatt:
I don't know of any way around it currently, but it would be nice functionality in an emulator. As would automatically creating character disks. Perhaps head over to Mess.org and suggest it as a feature. I don't think Mess's goal is accuracy like Mame's so it might get added.... |
| chemame:
OK, again, a shot in the dark here, maybe I'm just missing something... In WINvice, you can attach a disk image using the keyboard shortcut ALT-8 Would it be possible to use AutoHotKey for this? Have a hotkey ready to go that sends the entire keystrokes necessary to mount the image using all keystrokes? Haven't tried any of this, as I'm at work, and it's fairly obvious when a system is running C64 and not WXP :o chemame |
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