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Re: An USB interface for Disk2?
- Subject: Re: An USB interface for Disk2?
- From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:02:04 +0200
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Mike Willegal wrote:
> Seems like with a little additional effort, a real
> disk II could even be driven directly by one of those Apple II emulator
> programs.
I think you would have to read whole tracks, let the emulator run on an
in-memory representation of the track, and then write it back in one go
when the emulator tries to move the head off that track (if it has
changed). Otherwise, I assume that latency would ruin any attempt to do
this.
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Linards Ticmanis