> Actually, the driver is not that bad.
>
> I recently tested a large amount of games in both floppy and cartridge format, and I
> was pleasantly suprised to see that compatibility is better than I expected. It
> definitely shows promise. It took many MESS drivers quite a while to get up to speed,
> and look at them now - many of them are just as good, if not better, than dedicated
> standalone emulators.
I only partially agree to this. Yes, the driver is better than it was years ago, but it is still miles away from Vice.
"tested a large amount of games"... i dont know, i did that too and i am not happy with my results. While the games did start, most of them where not stable, or in other words, you could play them to a point, where the driver simply did hang and you only could reset the machine. Sadly these stuff happens randomly, so you cant report a bug with reproducible results.
On the other side, i agree to all points that Mamesick mentioned. What is really sad is, that all the hardware boosters for the 1541 doesnt seem to work. SpeedDOS, Dolphin Dos etc. none of them is working. Personally i dont think it is good, to include all this stuff while it is not working.
The only advantage i see in MAME and the C-64 emulation, are all available shaders. It is a nice eye-candy, that any other standalone C-64 emulator is missing.
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