Date   : Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:13:31 +0200
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: floppy discs

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:02:51 +0100, Jon Ripley wrote:

>John Kortink wrote:
>
>> Not yet probably. However, for the BBC : I'm tinkering
>> with the idea of supporting playback of UEF files via
>> GoMMC. Although this may need a few slight adjustments
>> to the OS ROM, loading a 'tape' via GoMMC may eventually
>> be indistinguishable from the real, cumbersome thing
>> with cassette tapes (GoMMC itself basically has no
>> memory footprint, so it has the potential to 'feed'
>> data to/via the actual *TAPE filing system).
>
>Now that *is* an interesting idea.

Thought so too.

I hacked up a first version, and it works (yezz !).
I just loaded the original tape version of Elite.
Around half a minute loading time (with room for
improvement, probably, but it works).

The setup just requires an unpacked, stripped, data-block
only version of the UEF file on GoMMC, and a few patches
here and there in OS 1.20 to link the tape filing system's
low level routines to GoMMC.

Time to test a few more games and tweak code ... !


John Kortink

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