Re: USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive

[DaveSchmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Mar 30, 3:23 pm, Wulf <app...@die-kempers.de> wrote:
> > Which version of Pascal are you running?  I believe only 1.2 and 1.3
> > have support for hard drives.  When I installed 1.3 on my CFFA, it
> > took the entire device, but only used something like 8MB.  It didn't
> > have an option for partitioning the hard drive, so I just dedicated a
> > small CF card to it.  Pascal doesn't use directories, so a real big
> > drive doesn't make sense anyway.
>
> > Dave...
>
> Hi Dave,
> I think it was your post I have seen on Rich's forum.
> Well ,the smallest CF card I have is a 32MB.
> It comes up with two partitions which I would expect to be 16 MB each.
> What is the CF card size you have used?
>
> By the way I have USCD Pascal 1.3 .

I used the built-in Pascal Filer tools to format and copy over the
files from floppies.  My memory has faded somewhat on this operation
and I'm not sure which unit mapped to which slot.  It does not see
partitions the same way ProDOS does - it just sees one (less than
32MB) device and uses it.  I think 1.2 came with a tool to create a
big file on a ProDOS partition that could be used as a Pascal area but
I've never investigated it.  Running Pascal on a CFFA was the single
biggest performance improvement you can make.  Compiles become quite
snappy, more like an IDE than the painful excursion into floppy
exercising it used to be.

Dave...