> Stuart Brady wrote:
> >You are always able to read the contents of an archive, so it can have
any
> >extension, but I
> >really preffer hte original one (packed SAD will be still SAD).
>
> IMHO, you shouldn't have the same extension for the compressed image and
> for the uncompressed image...
> >Also, extension must be max.3 chars long (for DOS users).
>
> That's why I said saz for zipped sad, etc... or using sad.gz if you can
> have longer extensions.
No no no.
We should have the least number of extensions as possible.
It is be possible to use only one extension for
compressed and uncompressed DSK/SAD and SimCoupe must
detect the contents of a file, not the extension.
Internally packed SAD is still a SAD.
Also, DSK shouldn't be compressed since some people
may want to work with it (Linux???).
> >> Btw, I've got an idea: you could treat the floppy as a ramdisk, and
load
> >> and save images to it -- that would only be optional, of course.
>
> >What?
>
> Loading and saving images, rather than opening them. It was an idea --
> if no one wants it, then fine. :-)
This is a question of floppy driver.
Allan's driver used in SimCoupe is very slow, since it does
no caching.
My driver (not used in SimCoupe, since it is not possible to talk with Si)
is faster since it does *caching*, which is something like you wrote.
It loads whole file to memory. When working with real floppies, it
reads only requested tracks and keep all of them in memory.
> --
> Stuart Brady
>
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