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news:169a0537-cda8-4351-aba3-df8248c22fb8@d32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > Just wonder how possible is a disk image emulator for the GS? > I figure you need 2 megs of space for the biggest images, which is > would the overhead be too much? Charlie
> Sorry if this question has been asked before, I tried seaching, but Possibly, depending on how many of the disk image formats you want to
> kept getting stuff for the SVD or emulators.
> very possible with ram cards.
support and how robust you want that support to be. There are quite a
few disk image formats and some allow almost anything in the image.
Even the 2mg format has documented support for 3 types of images and
there have been less well documented attempts to add more image types.
So any code written to use disk images in a GS would have to determine
what format the image is (it can't just look at the file extension) and
it would have to determine if there was enough memory available to
handle the image. A 2mg, .po, or .hdv image *can* be just under
32MBytes.
I believe all of this can be done if you don't expect it to handle
everything. I'm not sure it's worth the effort though.