Re: [fuse-emulator-devel] Fuse usability

[Garry L. <fu...@zx...>]

On 15 Dec 2004, at 11:56, Fred wrote:

> I also got a chance to try the great new microdrive emulation for the
> first time. Two issues though, we seem to have loads of different terms
> for the same action for each kind of media (e.g. we "write" a tape,
> "sync" or "eject" a microdrive, "eject" or "eject and write" a floppy
> disk, and "commit" or "eject" a ide disk. Can we standardise on one
> approach and terminology? Maybe "eject" and "eject and write"?

I haven't tried the microdrive emulation yet, but I agree that there 
should be some standardisation here.

Perhaps the options could be reduced to just "eject", with a dialog box 
to ask if any changes should be written to the file in question. 
Ideally, this would also happen whenever you exit Fuse; I've lost count 
of the number of times I've managed to lose changes I've made to a hard 
disk file by forgetting to "commit".

IMHO, it would simply be better to do away with this whole deferred 
commit/write business anyway; this has always seemed to me to be a 
rather unintuitive way for things to work. It took me ages to get used 
to the way tape files are written, and I still occasionally forget that 
you can't just open a tape, SAVE something and expect it to be there. 
Similarly, I regularly forget that changes made to a tape which is 
currently "inserted" into Fuse won't show up unless I re-load the tape, 
and wonder why my latest ResiDOS bugfixes don't appear to have worked 
;-)

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Garry Lancaster
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