Re: CFFA3000 Video Posted

[Jeff Shanholtz <jeffsubs@shanholtz.com>]

On Jul 21, 11:27 am, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 7/21/2011 1:39 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
> > Wow, good description! Now, a few more questions. Is there any way to swap
> > out disk images while a program is running, in other words, without
> > rebooting?
>
> Rich is developing an outboard switch mechanism with two switches that
> lets you rotate through a list of disk images for each drive.  So each
> time you press a button, the next disk in the series gets inserted.
> Exactly how that works hasn't been decided or coded yet, but the
> capability is engineered into the card and the switches are being produced.

I was wondering about the same thing. Being relatively inexperienced
with my apple (discounting my childhood experience), I'm not sure how
worthwhile this would be, but it seems like a remote/external unit
with a button and an LCD showing the current selection would come in
handy for situations like Jayson mentioned. It could also be really
useful if you mostly use like a half dozen unrelated disk images that
you can then cycle through as desired from session to session without
having to wade through the menus. Just a thought that popped into my
head. Of course, it may be a little late in the game to add something
like this anyway.