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Re: ProDOS Volume Emulation? (for K12 MECC)



On Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:49:35 GMT, mister_boffo@hotmail.com (Mr. Boffo)
wrote:

>And as long as I'm asking for things which probably don't exist
>anyway, are there any emulations which support compressed disk images?
>(Saving so many images at 140k/800k/20meg, whether or not they really
>do use that full amount, can quickly eat up lots of disk space.
>Emulators which can directly access compressed disk images would
>eliminate all that "wasted slack space" of zeroed sectors containing
>no data.)

This may be a silly question but why don't you just enable Window's
disk compression stuff?  It will handle all the
compression/decompression stuff for you and any emulator running on it
will get the ability to use compressed disk images.

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