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Re: Virtual serial drive



On 9/20/2012 12:18 AM, Hugh Hood wrote:
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.

I'd really like to do (ii) - does anyone know a recipe for replacing the Disk II code with your own? I think I know where the code lives (and I think it's on the Language card), but I don't have any idea about all the vectors I'd need to change to completely replace it. Is it as simple as manipulating the device table and count as I already do for s2d1?