Re: Hardware gadget for tape loading

["Craig Harrison" <Craigster@amstech.screaming.net>]

3 inch 40track drive based computer emulators already use the common .DSK or
EDSK formats, but when talking about 80 track discs as well, this could get
complicated!!

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Mickael Pointier <mike@defence-force.org> wrote in message
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> :Anyway what I'm saying is, emulation science is still advancing, and
> :tape emulation can be seen as separate to the machine emulation
> :itself, so if you pooled resources, all 8-bitters would benefit from
> :new advances straight away. We don't *need* separate tape utilities
> :for each machine. The same way, many people use Marat's Z80 core for
> :their emu's, why bother reinventing the microchip?
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> I believe in that case that it would be possible to have a similar system
> for disk drives ?
> A standard way of encoding disk datas, that would allow us to have
> "writedisk" and
> "readdisk" utilities that works for Atari ST, Oric, Spectrum, Apple,
etc...
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>     Mike
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