Re: 8-bit unzip utility

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Jun 27, 7:13 am, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> > Do I hear a ProDOS+ in the making?  ;-)
>
> It's called MS-DOS....   ;-)

Blasphemy! :-)

<<Insert legion of rabid foaming-at-mouth Apple II aficionado's
flaming Paul here>>

> And while we're at it, why not make ProDOS+ able to also deal with FAT
> formatted floppies?  The Mac can do that, so why not also the Apple
> II?  Sure, FAT is nowadays an obsolete file system (although not quite
> as obsolete as the ProDOS file system...)  but it's still widely used
> as a file system for portable devices: floppy disks, memory sticks,
> CF/SD/etc memory cards, and net disks (the only file system which can
> be accessed from Windows, Mac, and Linux is .... the FAT file system).
> Imagine a 3.5" floppy directly readable from Windows, Mac, Linux ...
> and ProDOS!

At a minimum you'd have to implement FAT16+Long Filename support, and
preferrably FAT32. The code to handle this would easily be larger than
ProDOS 8. Then you'd need to implement MS-DOS style partition map
support, and drivers for any storage device that doesn't provide a
SmartPort 'device' corresponding to the physical volume, which most
don't. Supporting the Superdrive would be simple enough however.

Matt