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Re: Virtual serial drive



On 9/20/2012 11:11 AM, Kevin wrote:
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:08:37 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
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?

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

iii is trivial - I just wanted to give people the chance to be absolutely sure they wanted to load this thing. So that's on the list too.