Re: Apple IIgs Virtual Hard Disk Project - Thoughts/Different Approach?

[sicklittlemonkey <nick.westgate@gmail.com>]

On Apr 29, 4:40 pm, Polymorph <mike.a.steph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not really, because as I understand it, the Apple Game Server only
> allows for you to run games (apps?) that are in single load files.

Not true - it handles images that use standard RWTS and replaces DOS
RWTS with a serial RWTS on the fly. So you can boot a DOS (probably
not ProDOS yet) disk over the serial connection and use it. IIRC
writes are not yet supported though.

> What the OP is talking about is creating a virtual read/write hard
> disk via serial - even allowing you to boot a IIgs (presumably into GS/
> OS?).
>
> I'm sure that there may be some overlap there, but the concepts are a
> little different.

That's true ... but hopefully a driver could do it. ProDOS has a
ramdisk driver, so surely GS/OS could handle a serial disk driver.

Cheers,
Nick.