Thomas wrote: > I take it from the talk of different versions of B-DOS that the > neither the Atom nor Trinity interfaces make any attempt to look > like a WD177x in hardware?
Correct. Having hardware that would mimic the WD1772 for mass-storage would be overkill I think, and drastically more complex than what's been made to date. > It's a shame neither do FAT32 + virtual images, even if it was just > something like, e.g. having a read-only FAT32 partition on one part > of the flash and a read/write Sam partition on the rest. Edwin's done a great job with the B-DOS and it's a very neat solution for handling mass storage, that's why I asked him if he would mind it being patched for Trinity. With such a good DOS there, there was no need to reinvent the wheel. I know I have info somewhere for FAT reading, and I've had the odd letter asking if the likes of a SD card from a camera could be read on the SAM. I had said in reply that I might briefly look at it sometime in BASIC just for very simple file transfer and write it for an article in the magazine or something, but taking it further to a full DOS to use the likes of a .dsk as a virtual disk would be a pretty big jump and not something I'd have the time for, plus I've no real experience of writing DOS stuff on the SAM - I'm still really inclined to using the network for transferring... really itching to get on with things when the stack is ready. Colin ===== Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2008 - Celebrating 14 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
