Yes, hopefully that's indeed what's happening here: the naming in the older versions is just a bit confusing, and if you load a disc image then you have to manually go to File > Drive N > Save to write any changes to the disk image file. To have writes saved to the disk image immediately, you need to load a Direct disc image, which probably doesn't really sound very appealing, even though it is actually the one you probably wantedIf you're running a version of b2 that "Disc Image / *Direct* Disc Image" options, only the direct versions are saved immediately. See this from 2024-03.Hi, I feel like this is a question I shouldn't be asking but I cant find the answer with a search. I'm using B2 but the issue I'm having is with the disk images. I save my work and it works during the session but later I find the disk has not actually been updated and my 'saved' work isnt saved at all.
What am I missing?
This may have gone away in more recent builds. I can't find it on my Mac version.
Thanks for digging out the link to that post - as a result of that discussion, I did indeed change the naming, so newer versions call it "Disc image" (writes are save to image file automatically), or "In-memory disc image" (writes need saving manually - but hopefully the naming means this is no surprise). So what's hopefullly the default-sounding option is now the useful one.
If using an old version with the Disc image/Direct disc image naming, an upgrade to the latest version is recommended: https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releases/latest - particularly as the write performance for direct disk images in older versions was needlessly poor. But there's also been various new emulation improvements (mouse, >16 KB ROMs such as Interword, Master Compact, Video NuLA accuracy, fix a number of cursor issues) and general bug fixes.
--Tom
Statistics: Posted by tom_seddon — Sat May 03, 2025 10:30 pm