Re: Projects that take Commodore computers to 2021

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:15:57 -0600
Message-ID: <8e9f0c71-f644-5a92-c864-f4bd77df67b4_at_jbrain.com>
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

Jim
Received on 2021-12-13 21:00:03

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