Hallo allemaal,
Thanks for the info!
Frank, about your remark about the extension Dxx: the DEL-filetype is rarely
used so I don't think there will be such an amount of DEL-files you need to use
the extension as well for seperation of individual files.
Your remark also remembered me about a question I wanted to ask. The D64-format
limits you to 35 tracks with 21 or less sectors. Server64 which I'm working on
right now supports D64. But I don't see no problem in letting it support a
diskformat using 255 tracks and 256 sectors ("track" 0 is reserved as
end-of-file). This leaves us with a 16 MB "floppy" :-) I also thought about the
problem of handling such a big floppy concerning the directory structure. 256
sectors give us 2048 directory entries. If this is not enough, I don't see any
problem in using other sectors reserved for normal programs as well. I only
have to reprogram my "validate"-part of the program to check track 18 as well.
It also should be able to use subdirectories, I only have to threat a file as a
directory and create an extra filetype for it: DIR. Theoretically any standard
C64, C128, C16 etc. should be able to work with this filetype.
I only will have problems with programs executed on the computer who want to
reprogram the drive to enable a fastloader or for other purposes. To support
this I have to build a complete emulator and I leave that to Frank :-)
Any comments and ideas are welcome.
Groetjes, Ruud
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