Re: [hatari-devel] Release 1.6.2 in mid May

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 18/04/2012 14:51, Laurent Sallafranque a écrit :

> A little question:
> Someone uploaded a patch for Pasti images.
> Nicolas said it was not the good way to implement this, it should be
> more generic.
> But I'm asking myself if this would not be a good idea to have it
> implemented (if this works).
> It would be the first version of Hatari which emulated this format.
> We could improve code later to add the missing parts.
>
> Nicolas ?

Hello

I have no problem with adding pasti support at early stage if it allows 
at least to run a few games that would not be supported up to now.

But in the case of the patch that was sent, it was basically a 
conversion of the pasti format to the internal .ST format. So any game 
with a protection would not run, as these informations can't be stored 
in a .ST format (this is similar to converting ST <-> MSA).

That's why I wrote that in its current state this patch should not be 
added to Hatari as it doesn't allow to run more disks than what we have 
today with ST/MSA.


Nicolas