I've a new request/idea. Can you make it possible to also switch to the floppydrive? That way I can load some old saves from floppy and save them in the large disk image!
Hmm that is a pretty big change in the code at this time im in a big project but i can take a look at it around end march, then i have time to do some fulltime programming again.
I got another idea as well; maybe you could add the assumption of .dsk at the end of the filename. That way you only have to type the game name... I know, I'm kinda lazy
I've a new request/idea. Can you make it possible to also switch to the floppydrive? That way I can load some old saves from floppy and save them in the large disk image!
What you can do instead is making an image of the disk with the old saves and concat it to the already existing file and select that disk when you want to load that save.
I did that with Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes, it has 2 disk in the file for saving/loading
that's a pretty good idea! Thx!
SMDNearDark: You didn't mention the user disk function in your manual/help. The file should be called .USR and selectable by pressing 0?
That is correct for example all gamedisks in XAK2.DSK and one empty disc in XAK2.USR keys 1 to 9 switch between gamedisks and 0 is always the userdisk.
I made this so you don't have to remember which disk is the userdisk.
and that way it's easier to use different user disks
Thats true, you only have to rename the userdisk to .USR to use it.
I'll make a new helpfile to include all options.
There is no helpfile for readit at the moment. Readit is pretty usefull as well, its pretty slow because it reads every single sector. If it gets an error from a sector it saves the exact error and all registers and runit uses this to give the exact error back to the gamecode.
This also helps to get more games working. I do advise to try getdisk first though as it is way faster reading the disks.
I've some problem with Princess Maker. I've added a userdsk created in bluemsx but it doesn't seem to recognize it as an empty userdisk. Also tried an empty dsk file, but no luck!
Anyone who knows a solution?
Btw, the links to the IPS files on the new neardark site don't work..