Re: Virtual serial drive

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:08:37 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> On 9/20/2012 12:18 AM, Hugh Hood wrote:
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> > David:
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> > If you're still fishing for feature additions, how 'bout:
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> > (i) Allowing the ADT Pro Server side to serve an entire folder/directory on
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> > the host, in addition to its present capability of serving ProDOS disk
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> > images.
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> > This would resemble Mark Munz's DejaIIx capability, in that it can take a
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> > folder full of files and 'emulate' a ProDOS volume with it. Obviously, the
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> > file names would have to be valid ProDOS file names in order for the Apple
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> > II end to work with them, and the 32 Meg volume size limitation would need
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> > to be ignored, and 'formatting' could not be allowed, etc ...;
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> >
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> > (ii) Allowing the virtual drive 'install' software to overwrite the Disk II
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> > driver so that you wouldn't have to install the driver in its present
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> > location. This would permit operation with more programs (at the cost of
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> > Disk II capability, of course);
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> > (iii) Provided (ii) were available, what about making the driver a SYSTEM
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> > file that could autorun right after ProDOS upon boot?; and,
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> >
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> > (iv) Having a CDA (on the IIGS) that could 'signal' the Server side to
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> > switch to another disk image?
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> > Remember, you asked for 'suggestions'. The second request (ii) above is
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> > probably the most desired, BTW.
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> I'd really like to do (ii) - does anyone know a recipe for replacing the 
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> Disk II code with your own?  I think I know where the code lives (and I 
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> think it's on the Language card), but I don't have any idea about all 
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> the vectors I'd need to change to completely replace it.  Is it as 
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> simple as manipulating the device table and count as I already do for s2d1?

I think item iii on that list would be cool, but its not a deal breaker