Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever 2008 "RP2", Announces C64 Forever

[Ilwrath]

Very cool.... Great idea saving the configuration data in an XML archived with the disk image.  Well done.  So simple and clean, someone SHOULD have thought of it before.  (But as far as I know, no one did.)  Thanks, again, Cloanto!  (And I look forward to C64 Forever!)

[Ilwrath]

somebody did think of it before.. its called java.. you know the jar file (renamed zip file) with manifest (configuration file). thats all this rp2 junk is, a renamed zip file with configuration file....

Well, I guess so...  I never really thought of a emulator disk image as a precompiled VM byte-code block before, but yeah, it kinda is, in a somewhat abstract way.  

looking in the example files they provide.. there are no settings in the xml file, ie: it doesnt say aga, 2mb ram, foo bar baz etc. nothing. so nothing of value-add here yet. so basically serves no purpose...

the xml schema they reference in the configuration file (as per xml spec) is not even available at the specified url.

Well, that's a bit of a problem.  I'll admit I didn't examine the schema, yet.  I just read the article and said "Cool!"  :lol:  ... and if they do it right, it will be.