Re: [hatari-devel] Re: Disabling GEMDOS HD emulation (was EmuCON behaviour in the cartridge target)

["Roger Burrows" <anodyne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 Aug 2018 at 0:08, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>
> Changed this to hatari-devel as everybody should be there too...
>
> On 08/19/2018 11:50 PM, Roger Burrows wrote:
> > On 19 Aug 2018 at 23:01, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> >> On 08/18/2018 10:00 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> >>> On 18/08/2018 at 03:12, Roger Burrows wrote:
> >>>> I just played with the cartridge version for the first time (took a
> >>>> while to figure out how to disable GEMDOS emulation to allow a
> >> cartridge).
> >>>
> >>> Yes, Hatari is absolutely not user-friendly regarding to that.
> >>
> >> In which way, and what would be better?
> >>
> > I had to say -d "" on the commandline to avoid GEMDOS HD emulation.  It's
> not
> > intuitive.  There should be a way of disabling it in the UI.  If there is,
> I
> > couldn't find it.
>
> Same as with other drives, just "Eject" GEMDOS HD (directory)
> in the "Hard disks" dialog.  After you OK the changes, emulator
> reboots without GEMDOS HD.
>
I thought I'd tried this, but obviously I hadn't.  Anyway, to get back to
Vincent's point, it's not obvious to a naïve user that in order to run a
cartridge he needs to disable GEMDOS HD emulation.  I knew that, it just took a
while to figure out how to do the disabling.  But IMO it's not obvious that
GEMDOS HD emulation implies the use of the cartridge port.  Perhaps there ought
to be a one-line explanation on the GUI panel that GEMDOS HD emulation and
cartridge port usage are mutually exclusive.

Roger