Re: Projects that take Commodore computers to 2021

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:11:49 +0100
Message-ID: <9277338.eNJFYEL58v_at_rakete>
Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2021, 20:45:08 CET schrieb Claudio Sánchez:
> El 13/12/2021 a las 19:32, groepaz_at_gmx.net escribió:
> > 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?
> 
> Would that WAV file be inside a REL file or would it have its own format?
> 
> Or I think I'm missing something here... (lack of knowledge arises)

just regular files (prg or usr or seq - they are all the same thing really)

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