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I like how your emulator (like RunCPM) can work with native directories and files. It's much more convenient than messing around with disk images.
by musicale 2y ago
I like how your emulator (like RunCPM) can work with native directories and files. It's much more convenient than messing around with disk images.
- stevekemp 2y agoThanks! One of my biggest frustrations with the retro-scene is having to deal with old compression-formats, and disk-archives, so that was very much a design choice. Many of the recent/modern emulation projects work the same way. In addition to RunCPM there's also the excellent rust-based iz-cpm project which I enjoyed studying at times.
- musicale 2y agoI like the idea of modern machines as universal systems that can seamlessly run whatever software you might like to run. When you switch to a new machine, all of your old software and files are still usable. Note that old software is likely to contain security flaws and other bugs, so isolation/sandboxing is important. Thanks for the iz-cpm reference!