Re: Apple2 USB Stick interface with Vinculum chip

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Apr 28, 3:00 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Apr 26, 6:46 am, "RedskullDC" <R...@oz.org> wrote:
>
> >>Any comments/suggestions?
>
> > 1)I like FAT because then it would be simple to load a usbkey with
> > data from a windows or mac machine.
>
> You'd still need CiderPress, since the 32MB FAT file is a ProDOS image,
> for example.

I suppose it would make it easier to ship HD images from emulators to
the target media, but considering the massive increase in complexity,
it doesn't really seem worth it. Particularly since the design seems
to indicate all this work would need to be done by Apple II firmware,
it seems somewhere between unlikely and impossible to handle reading/
writing an image off a FAT filesystem.

It seems more sensible to stick with traditional partitioning schemes,
and push tool support onto the more powerful platform. CiderPress
handles all this nicely for Windows, and traditional tools on UNIX
variants can handle most of the data shipping requirements.

Firmware on the Apple II side would be better dedicated to handling
the variety of USB media types - for instance memory card readers
which would allow it to read CF cards.

Matt