Re: Projects that take Commodore computers to 2021

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:32:44 +0100
Message-ID: <20757388.4csPzL39Zc_at_rakete>
Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2021, 20:26:29 CET schrieb Claudio Sánchez:
> El 13/12/2021 a las 19:15, Jim Brain escribió:
> > 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
> The thing about SEQ and REL files is that they are handled by CBM DOS,
> aren't they?
> 
> What about writing to the filesystem directly? Not as SEQ, PRG or REL files,
> but as any format (again, examples) like TXT, WAV or whatever the software
> defines? Sort of what DOS in a x86 would do, I mean.

How is writing .prg files not writing to the filesystem directly? Whats 
stopping you from writing .wav format?


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