Commander X16

deadhead wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:13 pm Where on the forums should I go if I just want to put my code on the online emulator and share the link with people? I don't really have anything to say or ask about the code, I just want to share it. Is there a specific place I should post it to?

deadhead wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:13 pm Where on the forums should I go if I just want to put my code on the online emulator and share the link with people? I don't really have anything to say or ask about the code, I just want to share it. Is there a specific place I should post it to?

desertfish wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 2:25 am Bitmap mode is supported just fine in the web emulator.

I suspect the program can't find the graphics file. Has the bitmap file name been properly mentioned in the manifest json? does it have the correct spelling/casing?

BruceRMcF wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:58 pm

Cyber wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:37 am ... I want to redirect this question to all developers, since I'm only a beginner in X16 development field. If I'm not mistaken Commodore disk drives did not support subdirectories. And I notice many X16 developers also don't use subdirectories, despite X16 supports them. Is it just a habbit? Or a safe side? Or is there more to it?

If I understand correctly, the X16 SD routines followed the subdirectory system used by CMD drives that supported subdirectories.

The dual drive systems for PET computers use a "1:" or "2:" to distinguish drive 1 and drive 2 on a disk drive unit. So CMD took advantage of the fact that ":" is a reserved separator in front of the file name to allow path references to be included before the ":", as in "//files/misc/:game1.prg", if "files" is a directory in the root directory.

Only a lucky minority of Commodore owners had CMD drives (though quite a lot had CMD JiffyDos), so it could well just be habit that sees many of us continuing to pile all of our files together without using sub-directories, when developing for retro systems.

Note that cross-developers have to keep straight two different different ways to refer to the same thing -- when working with the cross-development tools in the modern operating system, they are in the system they are used to ... be it C:\ or C:/ or /mnt/c or whatever ... but when operating on the X16, then any directory name has to be ENCLOSED by "/", so the relative reference to the "files/misc/game1.prg" file in the Commodore world (from CMD and inherited by, eg, SD2IEC, etc.) is "/files/misc/:game1.prg" and the absolute reference to the "/files/misc/game1.prg" file is "//files/misc/:game1.prg".

Those doing development hosted on the X16 would simply stay in "CMD subdirectories" world, so it will be less confusing, but only a small handful of us can, at present, be entirely in that space, since most of us are still reliance on the emulator which keeps us being cross-developers to at least some extent.

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