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2018-02-17 11:02
Tao

Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 115		 Separate categories for expanded hardware

I think that Algorithm's excellent new easyflash demo, together with some other demos that require hardware expansions (Treu Love and FMX music demo, for instance) obviates the need for a separate category for releases that require expansions.

This also goes for cracks that ONLY work with REU/easyflash/sd2iec and whatever else. Cracks that offer extra benefits from having such hardware, but work on standard hardware too, are a different thing.

Whether it be implemented by tags for common hardware expansions (and [other] for non-standard) or just separate release types (Expanded C64 Demo, Expanded C64 Crack) is up to the CSDb developers, obviously.

Computer + drive + joystick is a typical setup. Computer + REU, Easyflash, SD2IEC, SuperCPU or similar isn't.

PS: While Algorithm's new demo was what triggered me to write this, it's something that's been brewing for quite some time. It's by no means a critique of that demo--in fact I love that people make use of expansions. I envision that to be even more common in the future with the FM-YAM coming up.
 
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2018-02-22 15:08
Mr.Ammo
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Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 228		 Quoting Tao
Quoting Knight Rider
1541u2/1541u2+ is almost standard hardware now. Since firmware release 3.2 there is full eAPI support, so EasyFlash is becoming more and more mainstream (finally).

[snip]

Also, considering that v3.2 was released like two weeks ago or so I think it's fair to assume most people *don't* have EasyFlash support in their U2(+) :P

Running EasyFlash carts has been supported for some time (years) already. Only since firmware 3.2 it has eAPI support that makes saving possible. Your time scale might be a bit skewed ;-)
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