Re: Carte Blanche update

[Alex Freed <alex_news@mirrow.com>]

Bugman wrote:
> I was just curious how / if you were going to provide documentation on
> the standard features.  Reading the above stated page gives some good
> examples and info, but I'm still curious about the procedure for some
> functions.  For example, how to load the NIB images onto the th SD to
> be used as a psuedo floppy. 

FAT16 formated SD cards are used, so you just copy a .NIB file to
it under Windows or whatever. Making sure that:
1. the name is 8.3 with no spaces, etc.
2. All files are copied ONCE and not deleted so that the clusters
are contiguous.

We clearly have enough power to process any arbitrary FAT file
system, but somebody else will have to write the code.


> I was also curious if the pseudo disk
> includes a write mode.  I thought I remember reading on the orginal
> version that you were hoping someone else would implement that.

Not in the floppy emulation NIB mode. You can write to the SD card
in "raw" mode.


> Thanks for the info.  Although I'll be anxious to experiment with
> other features, I am mainly interested in the out of the box VGA
> capability becasue my composite color screens are not aging well!

The good news is that the VGA works out of the box with nothing
to do at all.

-Alex.