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Re: A new pseudo-disk for Apple 2.



BLuRry wrote:
About swapping disk images - I'm not a hardware guy, but if you had one
external pushbutton (think Wildcard), could you use DMA to stop the CPU
and read the keyboard for the image number?


That would be neat.  Stop the cpu, read the softswitches for the
current video mode (and retain those), backup $400-$7ff to onboard ram
and then take control with a UI menu.

Unfortunately, that (and other) state is not machine readable prior to
the //e.

-michael

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