@Robert: You are right to argue that an inserted disk remains in the system until you turn it on again, but I could counter again answering that with the real system I may want to take out the cartridge or the disk right before turning it on.
As I said, this is particularly important when you have autostart cartridges or disks. In reality you would unplug the cartridge before starting the system (imagine a disk in the PC floppy drive).
But the most uncomfortable point is with the command line arguments. I am using MESS within Linux, and I exclusively use the command line. The problem is that you already specify which media is inserted by command line switches, which can surprisingly interfere with the saved media mounts. Which means that if I write
then I don't like to find an additionally mounted harddrive, a second cartridge, or a disk in drive 3 from the last session just because I did not take them out before shutting down.
Unlike the media, dip switches or configurations are - from my experieces - much more permanent; they are usually somewhere in the case and you don't flip them too often. Media are made for being changed (probably except for the hard drive).
The way it is solved now - with the ini file property - works perfectly for me. One must ensure, of course, that MESSUI allows for accessing this property.
