Re: Virtual serial drive

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

David:

If you're still fishing for feature additions, how 'bout:

(i) Allowing the ADT Pro Server side to serve an entire folder/directory on
the host, in addition to its present capability of serving ProDOS disk
images. 

This would resemble Mark Munz's DejaIIx capability, in that it can take a
folder full of files and 'emulate' a ProDOS volume with it. Obviously, the
file names would have to be valid ProDOS file names in order for the Apple
II end to work with them, and the 32 Meg volume size limitation would need
to be ignored, and 'formatting' could not be allowed, etc ...;

(ii) Allowing the virtual drive 'install' software to overwrite the Disk II
driver so that you wouldn't have to install the driver in its present
location. This would permit operation with more programs (at the cost of
Disk II capability, of course);

(iii) Provided (ii) were available, what about making the driver a SYSTEM
file that could autorun right after ProDOS upon boot?; and,

(iv) Having a CDA (on the IIGS) that could 'signal' the Server side to
switch to another disk image?


Remember, you asked for 'suggestions'. The second request (ii) above is
probably the most desired, BTW.






Hugh Hood








in article k360bm$pse$1@dont-email.me, David Schmidt at schmidtd@my-deja.com
wrote on 9/16/12 9:02 PM:

> 
> You'll get these updates on the next release, which may be next year, or
> may be next weekend.  Let's see what else you come up with.