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chemame:
Heh, I've been using winvice for years now, and I've just learned something new.

FLIPLISTS. It looks like what you want to do is done through FLIPLISTS.

From my limited testing, I was able to create a "fliplist" with the second disk, and save that fliplist... at which point when you press ALT-N it will mount that image in device 8... SO.... theoretically...

with commandline parameters, it looks like you could start winvice with image #1 attached as device 8, and with image #2 loaded in a "fliplist", and when you need to insert disk2, you press ALT-N and away you go.

Also, if the "fliplist" contains multiple images, it appears to just cycle through them... so I assume you could go back to disk 1, etc.

Is this what you're after?

Hope it helps.

Chemame
Mister Badger:
Hey that's cool, I was wrong! I'll certainly be looking into that idea. I have all my d64 \t64 games in mamewah as vsf files to avoid all the cracktro's and wot-not coming up, so hopefully Vice saves the 'Fliplist' as part of the snapshot images it creates. I'll test it out now and post the results here a little later. 
chemame:
Hmmmm... dunno... from what I can tell here it doesn't seem to save that as part of the snapshot.

Bummer. I don't see what parameters can be passed to the c64 wrapper, so I'm not sure if this will work, but...

If the wrapper does pass commandline parameters on through, then couldn't you save your fliplist with the same name as your snapshot, and modify the mamewah parameters so that the wrapper not only loads the VSF but also the fliplist of the same name?

JCrouse, are you reading this? Can you comment on what the wrapper is doing with parameters?

It looks great on paper...

Chemame
Mister Badger:
Yeah, I just tested it out with the game turrican at the "TURN THE DISK!" prompt and it doesn't seem to save the fliplist as part of the snapshot. Still, I say goodwork on your part sir, as it is a handy feature to use on  my desktop pc that I wasn't previously aware of. I'll look into your other suggestions, though I fear that my technical incompetence may hinder me somewhat (!)
 In the meantime, I'll try sending a plea for fliplists to be saved as part of snapshot images to the VICE squad (Although I'm not sure how to word it without appearing whiney, seeing as how they already gave me a cool emulator for free and they don't 'owe' me a damn bean)
whatisk:
Wow, now things are getting interesting  ;D
Being pretty new to Vice, I had no idea about the fliplist. I didn't even know about using VSF files to avoid all the stuff coming up at the beginning of the game.

This has now led to a couple of new questions:
1. When creating the VSF, am I correct in that once the game has loaded you then start the recording and once you get to the title screen (for example) you then stop the recording. I am also assuming that these can be loaded via a command line for use in a cab to get to the beginning of a game.

2. I have not had much luck in figuring out exactly how to use the fliplist. Is there a command line option to say which images to flip between, or is a text file created and then passed through? This is looking very interesting. If only I can figure out how to use it  :P

I am currently looking at using WinVice. Should I instead be using Vice (dos)? I'm running XP.

Edit: Okay,  I think #1 was answered in a post by Mister Badger in another thread...
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