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Adrian Brown | 16 Jun 17:06

RE: Grabbing floppy images

Is that a little hint hint at hte bottom of your email ;)  Good news is
all of the main UIp is converted, just writing a test app :D  Then i
need to finalise how best to allow access to it for features for other
coders.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sam-users@... [mailto:owner-sam-users@...]
On Behalf Of Colin Piggot
Sent: 16 June 2008 16:00
To: Adrian
Subject: Re: Grabbing floppy images

Thomas wrote:
> I take it from the talk of different versions of B-DOS that the
> neither the Atom nor Trinity interfaces make any attempt to look
> like a WD177x in hardware?

Correct.

Having hardware that would mimic the WD1772 for mass-storage would be
overkill I think, and drastically more complex than what's been made to
date.

> It's a shame neither do FAT32 + virtual images, even if it was just
> something like, e.g. having a read-only FAT32 partition on one part
> of the flash and a read/write Sam partition on the rest.

Edwin's done a great job with the B-DOS and it's a very neat solution
for
handling mass storage, that's why I asked him if he would mind it being

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Colin Piggot | 16 Jun 17:25

Re: Grabbing floppy images

Adrian wrote:
> Is that a little hint hint at hte bottom of your email ;)

Nah, not trying to hint, I'd just send a message saying "chop chop" if I
wanted to be blatent about it! ;)

Besides you know I've been excited about seeing the stack going from when
you first said you would be looking at porting it across to the SAM, and for
all of us 'Real Life' and 'Work' have to take priority over SAM stuff.

> Good news is all of the main UIp is converted, just writing a test
> app :D  Then i need to finalise how best to allow access to it for
> features for other coders.

Fantastic!

Colin
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