Re: Projects that take Commodore computers to 2021

From: Claudio Sánchez <tokafondo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:45:08 +0000
Message-ID: <8e7226db-bbda-ef98-8c9c-f2caca3b379f_at_gmail.com>
El 13/12/2021 a las 19:32, groepaz_at_gmx.net escribió:
> Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2021, 20:26:29 CET schrieb Claudio Sánchez:
>> El 13/12/2021 a las 19:15, Jim Brain escribió:
>>> 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
>> The thing about SEQ and REL files is that they are handled by CBM DOS,
>> aren't they?
>>
>> What about writing to the filesystem directly? Not as SEQ, PRG or REL files,
>> but as any format (again, examples) like TXT, WAV or whatever the software
>> defines? Sort of what DOS in a x86 would do, I mean.
> 
> How is writing .prg files not writing to the filesystem directly? Whats
> stopping you from writing .wav format?
> 
> 

Would that WAV file be inside a REL file or would it have its own format?

Or I think I'm missing something here... (lack of knowledge arises)
Received on 2021-12-14 00:00:02

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