Re: Hardware musings

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

BLuRry wrote:

> Not if you implement a _command_ buffer, where command indicates some
> sort of subroutine and a set of data to be used, etc.  You could
> implement the code on a pic to store an entire nibbilzed sector or
> track -- and feed this hypothetical device sector/track coordinates
> followed by the raw nib. data.
>
> This would only be useful for reading/writing whole disks, for obvious
> reasons.

I think you're underestimating the complexity a little when it comes to
copy protected disks. Buffering an entire track would work OK for a lot
of titles, but would fail for software that relied on synchronising
tracks.

Matt