[Coco] Xroar and tape emulation

[David Ladd]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk> wrote:

> Allen Huffman wrote:
> >
> > The cassette emulation was tricky, since I needed to effectively rewind
> > and reuse a tape as I moved from EDITOR to ALLRAM. Xroar made this
> > difficult. I could ^W mount a writeable .CAS file, and save out the
> > message base, but I couldn't ^L load it since it was still a 0K file. I
> > had to create a temporary ^W writeable .CAS file, then it would flush out
> > the other, then I could ^L load it and use it. I had to repeat this step
> > if I wanted to save the data back to the same tape.
>
> Hmm, yes, XRoar's approach isn't very good for that case (though it's
> alright for the "load a program off one tape, same data out to another"
> case).
>
> I'll stick it on the list to consider a better interface for this sort
> of thing.
>

I will have to bump this :D This would be a handy feature :D

>
> ..ciaran
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