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Re: Virtual serial drive
Well, if SSC serial cards are available new or used for only $20, it would be foolish not to invest in one for this virtual serial drive, and also for faster serial transfers of .dsk images.
Had a thought, could the code for the virtual serial disk driver be reloacted to an unused area (if there is any with ProDOS there) as an alternative to putting it into ROM?
Agreed that ROM is the best place for the code, but how will this be easilly accomplished? Can the SSC's ROM be flash and is it an EPROM?
re: the date, I agree it is an interesting idea, but it would create overhead and reduce speed of transfers, even it it is only 2 or 4 bytes in addition to the 512 bytes / block transfered. Perhaps ADTPro could have the *option* to do this rather than the hard-coded *feature*. For those who want to maximize bandwidth, there may be other tricks as well, such as an easy RLE compression of each packet, etc.