Re: disk image emulator on the GS - possible?

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Jul 1, 1:44 pm, "Charlie" <charlieD...@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
> "nyder" <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> So any code written to use disk images in a GS would have to determine
> what format the image is (it can't just look at the file extension) and
> it would have to determine if there was enough memory available to
> handle the image.  A 2mg, .po, or .hdv image *can* be just under
> 32MBytes.

And that's exactly the approach that emulators, CiderPress, FishWings,
AppleCommander, ADT, and ADTPro, and the like take - they analyze the
disk contents, make a determination about that the format is,
translate it to a normalized form, and then use it, transmit it,
present it, or save it to something else.

Lacking imagination, my solution is to keep those translation tools in
place, and have a transmitter send normalized disk image contents into
a RAM (or physical!) disk.  I now see having functionality on the GS
end that could do its own interpretation of a raw image and "mount" it
so the OS can see it.  But as you point out, that pre-supposes you
have an even-larger device online that can house the image in the
first place, as well as memory to host the interpreted image.