Re: ProDOS Volume Emulation? (for K12 MECC)

[processoroverclocked@33mhz.cjb.net (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <395d74f2.76071785@news.wi.centuryinter.net>,
mister_boffo@hotmail.com (Mr. Boffo) wrote:

> Are there any Apple IIe emulators which are capable of accessing a
> "faked ProDOS volume" saved as one big file on a PC?

Yes. They're called HDV images and emulate hard disks. Apple Oasis and
ApplePC will support them. They are expanded as files are added to them.

For 3.5" disks, you can use an HDV file that is 800K or less or, if you
have an emulator that supports it, a 2mg file that is 800K. The 2mg format
is used mainly by Apple IIgs emulators.

> 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.)

I remember reading about one emulator that did that. I think it was one
for the Macintosh though.

Tammy and TIA,
----> Jon.

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