From: Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) (ruud.baltissen_at_abp.nl)
Date: 2003-12-05 07:51:54
Hallo allemaal,
I want to expand my 4040-emulator so one PC can emulate more then one drive.
So I need an unique thing to handle requests coming from the CBM.
My question: is device and channel unique enough?
When giving the command OPEN 1,8,15,"V" you cannot use file 1 again because
the C= will reject it with FILE IS OPEN error. (or something like it. I'm
not at home, so I cannot check it) So I thought "Eureka!" but then I
wondered what would happen if you gave the command OPEN 3,8,15,"I" while the
floppy still was validating the disk.
Last evening I tried the above in al little BASIC program on my C64:
10 open 1,8,15,"v0"
20 print "aaaaa"
30 open 3,8,15,"i0"
40 print "bbbbb"
50 close 1 : close 3
This worked so far that the "aaaaa" was displayed and the C64 had to wait
until the validate was finished. In other words, the drive refused to accept
any other command until its present task is finished.
Hmmm, just popped in my mind: I could also have said '30 print#1,"i0"' which
IMHO would have ended in the same behaviour.
The consequence of running more then one device/drive on a PC is that as
long as the PC is busy with something, it is blocked for further commands.
There is only one thing I worry about. I'm reasonably sure there a way to
make two drives exchange data with each other directly. Thus no
'load"xxxx",8' and 'save"xxxx",9' where the CBM serves as a buffer but a
direct data exchange. I'm afraid that that is out of the question for the
moment.
Thanks for any info/comment.
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