Re: Projects that take Commodore computers to 2021

From: Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:12:57 -0800
Message-Id: <4B567419-3526-4ACF-81C4-110E07EDEC7F_at_root.org>
> On Dec 13, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com> wrote:
> 
> On 12/13/2021 12:45 PM, Claudio Sánchez wrote:
>> 
>> El 12/12/2021 a las 16:02, Jim Brain escribió:
>>> On 12/12/2021 6:11 AM, Claudio Sánchez wrote:
>>>> But what about a FAT file system implementation 
>>> 
>>> All the sd2iec-based drives do FAT (16 and 32), and I think 1541U does as well.
>> 
>> Ok, but is the FAT filesystem accessible natively from the Commodore computer? Or is the the FAT support an underlying layer to put the disk image files on?
> 
> The FAT fs is natively accessible.  You can store a multi-megabyte file in the card and access it directly with open commands.  Also, I wrote the native FS rel file support, which I believe will handle positioning to any byte in a 2^32-1 sized file

Slightly off topic but the X16 ROM has FAT parsing in its kernel so you can natively work with files off flash storage.

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1421
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1416

-Nate
Received on 2021-12-13 23:00:03

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