Re: Any raw data specs for the Apple IIgs BRAM?

Laroquod wrote:

Absolutely. I have thought of creating a 'profile system' where people
could save multiple preferences for multiple programs. Ideally, this
system would be of the most use if it could (a) include both the
settings in the emulator control panel as well as the BRAM settings,
and carry the two together as a single 'profile', and (b) somehow
automatically save the current settings in the same folder as the
disks you launched ... and then look for them again there when you
relaunch those disks. (I have seen one Apple II emulator on the Mac
set up a system like this but I don't remember which one -- none of
the OS X ones so far.) This way, you wouldn't have to create your own
profiles and type in their names, and choose them at the appropriate
times, etc. If you don't have a good system for auto-managing profiles
it can be annoying to impose them on the user, and there also needs to
be a way to establish profile 'hierarchy' so that starting a game
you've never played before would inherit some useful general settings
that aren't a total reset but still aware of your general preferences
for this type of game. (A good division would be a general II
preferences versus a general IIgs preferences.)

It might be simpler to think of these "base" preferences as
defaults rather than part of some general hierarchy.

Beware of creeping featurism! KISS! Less is better. Etc.

We are getting into the area of 'power user' features, which is not
really the main point of my software, which is to disguise the cruft
by doing smart things *for* you -- (for example, you don't fill in
slots directly one by one, you just drop a bunch of disks and pick one
of a few slot-filling 'strategies': S7 boot S5 data, vice versa, etc.,
the first disk alphabetically always being considered the 'boot disk')
-- but I think there is room for any extra functionality if it is done
in such a way that it just remembers things without you necessarily
having told it to. Maybe power users can have their own separate
control panel to make adjustments, and people who want to 'just run
it' wouldn't have to look at it. (Or, if anyone wants to create a
REALLY super souped up power user 'pimp-my-emulator' control panel I
would love to see these forks develop from my source code.)

And 99.9% of all programs that people are likely to run just
involve *one* disk in *one* slot... The other 0.1% know how
to fend for themselves! ;-)

-michael

NadaNet networking for Apple II computers!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

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