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- ReadMe1st: Important information about 6502Dem
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- NOTE: This demo version lacks the following features:
- the loading of sampled BBC tapes, the saving of snapshots of the emulator
- state, the saving of emulator screens as Sprites, and Electron emulation.
- All other features are fully implemented.
-
- To obtain any of the Superior Software games described in the documentation,
- contact Superior Software on 01652 658585.
-
- The software on this disc has been archived to save space. This means that
- it must be installed before it can be run. To install the software follow
- the simple instructions below.
-
- Documentation for the emulators and the tape software can be found in
- archives in the 'Docs' directory.
-
- These instructions assume you are installing to a harddisc. The procedure
- for installing to floppy is similar, but will either require you to use a
- RAM disc as temporary storage, or to swap discs many times.
-
- Installing 6502Em to harddisc:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- [6502Em is archived, and needs to be installed and activated before it
- can be run.]
-
- 1) Insert the cover disc in drive 0.
- 2) Run ArcFS. (Its icon will appear on the icon bar.)
- 3) Double-click the !6502Dem. (A Filer window will appear.)
- 5) Open a Filer window on your hard drive where you want to install 6502Dem.
- 6) Drag the !6502Dem and !Rip65Host applications from the cover disc Filer
- window to the harddisc Filer window.
- 7) Now run the installed !6502Dem. This will tell you to run !Rip65Host
- first.
- 8) Open a filer window containing !65Host. (If you do not have a copy of
- !65Host, a copy can be found in the Acorn directory inside the !6502
- archive on the cover disc; copy this to the same directory as 6502Dem
- is being installed in.)
- 9) Double-click on !Rip65Host; this extracts the BBC operating system from
- inside !65Host, and inserts it into !6502Dem.
- 10) Delete !Rip65Host from the hard disc.
- 11) If you copied !65Host out of the archive on the floppy, you can now
- delete it from the harddisc.
- 12) Done!
-
- [If you have access to a Master and/or Master compact, you may like to run
- the 'Utils.SAVERoms' program on them to obtain the operating systems for these
- machines too. The resulting files can be placed inside !6502Em.ROMs.Master and
- !6502Em.ROMs.Compact as Documented in the Docs.ROMs file. This will allow these
- machines to be emulated too.]
-
- Why aren't the BBC/Master/Master Compact Operating Systems included?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The simple answer is we are not allowed to. If we had our way, we would
- supply every copy of 6502Em with BBC, Master, Master compact, and the newer
- Master operating systems built in. This would be considerably simpler for
- all concerned.
-
- Unfortunately, Acorn told us that we would need to pay £5000 for the rights
- to distribute these operating systems. As a small company we cannot possibly
- afford this much money, and so we have had to distribute the software without
- the ROM images in an easily upgradable form.
-
- Apologies for the inconvenience, but there is nothing we can do about this.
-
- Contacting Warm Silence Software:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Warm Silence Software can be contacted at the following address:
-
- Warm Silence Software,
- St Catherines College,
- Manor Road,
- Oxford, OX1 3UJ
- England
- Tel: (0585) 487642
-
- We can also be contated by email at:
-
- Robin.Watts@comlab.ox.ac.uk
-
- Have fun with your software!
-