Load ROMs from stdin?

Poobah · Post by **Poobah** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:48 am

I posted a similar request a few days ago on the NSRT forum, and I just realised that ZSNES could also benefit from the ability to load a ROM from stdin. I guess at start-up it could read the entire thing into memory and then keep it there until the session ends. I think this would be useful because this way we could use our favourite compression programs to run ROMs straight out of their archives rather than wearing out our HDDs using front-end programs that extract and delete the ROMs every time we want to use them.

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:37 am

Uhm, who said that normal harddrives wear out that way? Flash drives do, but not mechanical disks.

Post by **Nach** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:49 am

It's somewhere on my todo list after I add it to NSRT.

Poobah · Post by **Poobah** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:22 am

whicker wrote:Uhm, who said that normal harddrives wear out that way? Flash drives do, but not mechanical disks.

I just did, but I'm not much of a hardware person, so please forgive my ignorance. Could you please explain how and why they wouldn't wear out from continually extracting and deleting files? If anything, I would've thought that flash drives were the ones that wouldn't wear out!

Nach wrote:It's somewhere on my todo list after I add it to NSRT.

Thanks.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:46 am

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8411

Post by **Nach** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:30 am

Poobah wrote: If anything, I would've thought that flash drives were the ones that wouldn't wear out!

Flash drives wear out very quickly in fact. Especially if you're using one of those stupid Windows OSs that start using it for swap as soon as you plug it in.

I work in a place with many people and almost everyone has a flash drive. I can't begin to tell you how many times I hear "my flash drive died" and they have to buy a new one.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:23 pm

Nach wrote:Flash drives wear out very quickly in fact. Especially if you're using one of those stupid Windows OSs that start using it for swap as soon as you plug it in.

u meen vista amirite

also you can configure *nix to use a flash drive as a swap, but it wouldn't be worth it (personally I thought it was kinda cool at first)

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:35 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:
Nach wrote:Flash drives wear out very quickly in fact. Especially if you're using one of those stupid Windows OSs that start using it for swap as soon as you plug it in.
u meen vista amirite

no, he meant using a flash drive as a HD replacement, hence the point of this thread.