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disk image emulator on the GS - possible?
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Subject: Re: disk image emulator on the GS - possible?
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 1, 8:22=A0am, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wonder how possible is a disk image emulator for the GS?
Do you mean like the RAM disk that's built into the GS control panel?
> It's just it seems a lot of disk are in the 2mg format, and it seems
> currently you have to use emulators to convert them into something
> readable by the GS.
Well, the 2mg needs to be stripped of its 2mg header, but that's about
it. The raw disk data can then be loaded on a physical (or RAM) disk
by any of a number of file or disk transfer methods. What do you want
to do, exactly?