Re: Ultima Apple Emulation

[sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

On Jan 26, 4:57 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Just for the record, the only analysis that can be guaranteed to
> work is to faithfully (cycle-accurately) simulate the execution of
> the disk *from boot* on an Apple II.  This is equivalent to a fully
> automatic "boot trace" of the disk.

An emulator can easily record which tracks are and aren't used during
a complete play-through. And yes, I know - how can we be sure it was
complete? ;-) Well, if tracks are discarded, and then the emulator
alerts the user some day that the software is trying to access a track
not present, it must be recovered from the original full disk capture.

Cheers,
Nick.