Re: disk image emulator on the GS - possible?

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

On Jul 1, 4:24 pm, "Charlie" <charlieD...@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
> The more I think about it the more complicated it gets. (or maybe its
> just me making problems where none exists :-)
> For instance, I envision a program running on the GS that would emulate
> the booting of the image and then turning over the actually running of
> the programs on the disk image to the GS hardware.  Reading and writing
> to the image would have to be diverted from the hardware back to the
> image emulator.  If the image was loaded completely into RAM then some
> mechanism would be needed to ensure that data written to the image
> wouldn't be lost when the program quits.
On the face of it, this all sounds a lot like the Mac works with .dmg
images - it makes them mountable and then visible to the filesystem.
No problem, if reading files is our goal.  But if the OP wants to
_boot_ off of them, we have a whole other kettle of fish. :-)