[B2-devel] Basilisk II's potential features

[Giancarlo M. <sen...@gm...>]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post to this list, although I am subscribed for some time.

I want to know if is there any ongoing coding or any plans to improve
Basilisk II's in any platform. Is it?

I am developer, and although my job focus on web development, I am not
completely illiterate in lower-level coding. I have some rusty knowledge in
C and C++ and I use a bit often Objective-C.

I think it would be great to try some new features in Basilisk II to both
practice and give my contribution to this great piece of software.

Hence.. I want to try coding a couple of "features" into Basilisk II, but I
do need some opinions and suggestions and maybe I get stuck earlier than
expected.

I have two small ideas I would like to play with and maybe they are already
developed or in an ongoing development or maybe not: the first is to try to
send messages between host and guest operating systems (maybe by using a
SCSI?), in order to, in the future, maybe, with the help of a guest
application, trigger actions in the guest operating system and vice-versa.
The second idea is to suspend the emulator's execution to copy files into
the image disk. I understand that while Basilisk II is running such action
can damage the file's integrity, but what happens if I stop it? Would be
interesting to see it.

Looking forward to hearing from you.