Edwin Blink wrote: > > >Incidentally, you're not planning on making a Win32 DSK management tool are > > Well I'll will enhanche the Screen viewer in the near future so bitmaps > may be added to a image. So if you lot send your ideas and request to me. > Maybe I will.
Hmmm... Why not invent special format to store Sam files on other platforms ? I mean this format must have header for all SamDOS values (e.g. BASIC ones). That DSK management must allow to save several files into one file of such format. There are similar thing in Speccy emulation range called .scl (used to store several files of Beta 128 interface in one .scl) which allows to have whole data of program sectors (some sectors may have texts located in unused parts of sector). Here is my offer of how to organise format structure: - such format may have extension .scf - "SamCoupe File(s)" - all files must be stored as copy of all its sectors (independently is it used completely or not) - fields of .scf format (revision 0.01) are as follow: --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- Offset Size Purpose -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x00 0x0A The "SamCoupe Files" ASCII text 0x0A 0x01 "End of File" terminator - 0x1A byte 0x0B 0x01 Major version number (0x00 currently) 0x0C 0x01 Minor version number (0x01 currently) 0x0D 0x01 DOS identificator (0x01 == SamDos, 0x02 == MasterDOS, etc) 0x0E 0x01 Ammount of files stored in this .scf file (N) 0x0F 0x01 Write enabled/disabled flag (0x00 == enabled, 0x01...0xFF == disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x10 0x?? Header of 1-st file in .scf format (+2 bytes of CRC) .... .... 0x?? 0x?? Header of N-th file in .scl (+2 bytes of CRC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x?? 0x04 CRC overall --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- > Edwin Blink > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.wanadoo.nl/blink/index.htm
