Re: Brutal Deluxe's holidays project 1: IIgs mount virtual disk image

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Aug 19, 1:44 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> On 19 août, 12:32, "Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>
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> > "Toinet" <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote in message
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> > > It is not possible to mount a HFS partition nor a DOS 3.x or RDOS 3.x
> > > partition, it is limited to ProDOS files only (140 KB or 800KB). Note
> > > that the files are loaded into memory in one shot. There are no ways
> > > to open files larger than available RAM or >800 KB.
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> > I understand the size limitation due to loading everything into memory, but
> > I'm curious to know why you couldn't support other disk sizes such as a 1.44
> > MB ProDOS file image?
> > --
> > Peter Watson
> > -- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
> > -- Impossible!  ;-)
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> Oops, sorry Peter, I forgot that one completely. I will add it to
> v1.0.1. I will create several disk images of that size and test it.
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> Any other forgotten things?
Is it already or would it be possible to mount arbitrarily sized .po
or .2img images?