[sebhc] Disk formats and emulators

[Steven Parker]

Dwight sayis:
>  I use complete disk images ( actually prefer them ). The
>problem is that right now, my images don't match any of the
>current formats used by the simulators.

What simulator does disk simulation now?  It's a yet-to-be-implemented 
feature of the one I have (Dave Wallace's).  However, I was thinking about 
completing it, and I was going to make it work with binary images, perhaps 
with additional formatting info (I'm not sure yet if that can be uniquely 
implied by the file size).

It's no big deal to convert between the various formats, but it would be 
nice to have a "standard" one for archival storage.

>It is used to copy disk images to and from
>a H89 ( hasn't been tested on a H8 yet ),

The main catch to portability is refraining from using z80 opcodes.  
Otherwise, it would only be usable on H8's equipped with the HA-8-6 CPU 
upgrade.  Ironically, I don't have one of those, despite the fact that I 
designed the ROM for it (PAM-37).

I'll let you know if that oil trick works!

Cheers,

- Steven

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