Re: firmware for the PseudoDisk

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Alex Freed wrote:
> > 1. Make a Windows GUI   that allows writing images to the SD/MMC.
> > No need for a "filesystem". Just some simple catalog of images that
> > are always contiguous.
> >
> > 2. Use FAT16 on SD/MMC to store files: .nib images and .hdv images.
> > Treat them as nibble images and ProDOS volumes depending on
> > extension. On boot load a program that will list the FAT catalog
> > and allow selecting an image by name.
>
> How could ProDOS use a FAT filesystem, anyway?

Presumable Alex is talking about option (2), with HDV files in a FAT
filesystem being mapped to ProDOS partitions by the firmware.

That actually sounds really cool, and solves the access problems for
any reasonable platform, but there are people who want to store
*thousands* of NIBs. I suppose it could support both, and store the
bulk of NIBs (or NIB2s!) after the FAT partition.

Cheers,
Nick.