Re: disk image emulator on the GS - possible?

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 1 juil, 14:22, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this question has been asked before, I tried seaching, but
> kept getting stuff for the SVD or emulators.
>
> Just wonder how possible is a disk image emulator for the GS?
>
> I figure you need 2 megs of space for the biggest images, which is
> very possible with ram cards.
>
> would the overhead be too much?
>
> It's just it seems a lot of disk are in the 2mg format, and it seems
> currently you have to use emulators to convert them into something
> readable by the GS.   So it got my wondering why someone hasn't made
> one before.  I know I can't be the first person to think of it. so it
> must be some hardware limitation or something.
>
> Anyways, thanks for listening, and if this is a stupid question, i'm
> ready for some stupid answers.  lol
>
> thanks

On Saturday, 8/AUG/2009, @ 5:54 PM (Paris time), my answer is: YES, a
disk image emulator for the GS is possible. I have one ;-) Genesys, a
resource editor, works like a charm from my virtual disk image driver
(.com)

The code is quite clean but there are things remaining to do (do not
restrict to 800KB ProDOS 2MG disk images ;-) As I do not have my Mac
with me, I cannot upload things easily on our website. That will leave
me some time to code the remaining stuff...

Antoine
Brutal Deluxe Software