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

[yakumo9275]

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....

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.

[yakumo9275]

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.

Well a JAR file is just a container (zip file), same as RP2.

and yeah if they get it working it should be pretty cool, as long as they use it to provide hints to the emulator configuration etc. I'll reserve judgement until the schema and real examples come forth.

They have a lot of disk images to go through

[yakumo9275]

Just think about it: if you add the configuration inside the file, you have to start versioning the file

if you look at the xml files, you will see that they are versioned already.

so if the current example files just work, because there is nothing in the config file, then whats the point of the config file? nothing.

the biggest issue I see is that its closing the gate after the cow has already left the paddock. disk images exist in the multitudes all over the net. its a bit late to come up with a new configuration file and format to go along with them.

I dont honestly see the point, most amiga software is what, ecs or aga compatible. The c64 doesnt really have any such conflicting configurations, disk images are just that.

It just appears too little too late, or they are trying to do a 'value add' that isnt really value in order to push the next version of AmigaForever because in all reality apart from advances in winuae, their product is static and winuae is free.