Date   : Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:23:55 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: floppy discs

Jon Ripley <jon@...> wrote:
> > 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).
 
As the GoMMC 'lives' in a sideways ROM all it needs to do is
respond to service calls 13 and 14 and 'feed' bytes to the ROM
filing system. Doesn't even need any patching to the MOS, and the
extra advantage that the MOS doesn't need to know what the
internal structure of the ROM servicing the ROMFS calls are. The
API allows up to &100000000 bytes of data to be accessible!
 
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