Re: [Atari800-users] Re: monitor.[ch]

[Janka G. <ger...@si...>]

Nathan Hartwell wrote:

> > >Right now, I do have a modified ATR header that activates the proposed
> hard
> > >drive changes.  According to data I've seen, the Atari800 emulator is
> using
> > >a whole byte as the read-only flag when only bit 0 of that byte was
> defined
> > >for that purpose.  I changed the code to reflect the bit 0 usage and
> added a
> > >bit 1 definition.
> >
> > So far, so good. This is good solution, I think.
> 
> And there's plenty of growth available in the ATR header, if people support
> it properly.  Which is why I've stuck with a modified ATR format for now.

One thing that's absolutely not clear to me is what you want the
changes for. If you only want bigger ATRs then look at Yogis
MegaATRs. If on the other hand you want a file that emulates a real
HD then like we said before you should invent a AHI and put in it
after the specific header a structure that reflects the one on your
HD. If you make public documentation of the structure surely somebody
like Jindroush will write utilities to transfer files to/from it ;-)

Gerhard

P.S. : I find it very bad that every time I forget to correct the
return address I send a private mail to a single guy instead of a
reply to the list. And since I never had that problem before, I do
forget it most of the time :(