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I think it is a very viable concept, but probably not ultimately going to b=
e used much.  Jace has the same thing at the Java level going on, and it us=
es introspection and classpath scanning to look for classes that implement =
the "Card" interface.  I could probably take it one step further and use an=
 OSGi container which is what IDEs such as Eclispe and Netbeans do, but I d=
on't see a lot of demand for third-party modules (mod) support per se.  Not=
 that I'm adverse to implementing it anyway.   I already did this for Outla=
w Editor so I already have a template so to speak...

On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 9:00:17 AM UTC-5, Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>=20
> >[...] and planning to implement slot devices=20
> >as DLLs, allowing people to rewrite pieces of the emulation, or to add n=
ew=20
> >components [...]
>=20
> I don't know if it is interesting to you and/or if you already know
> but this idea is actually pretty exactly 20 years old:
>=20
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.emulators.apple2/GMOIzd7pvIY/4=
-hULnKZlGgJ
>=20
> Shortly before I handed AppleWin over to Tom I had experimented with
> it myself. I was especially concerned with a "pluggable user
> interface" as most devices require some user configuration (think of
> some mass storage device needing to know which image file to mount). I
> figured out that it was possible to create a Windows tabbed dialog
> from tabs provided by different DLLs. So the tabbed configuration
> dialog you see in AppleWin today is a visible witness of the second
> time this idea was tried ;-)
>=20
> Regards,
> Oliver