Re: [B2-devel] Basilisk II's potential features

[Jaime C. <jca...@gm...>]

Hi Giancarlo

2013/10/29 Giancarlo Mariot <sen...@gm...>

>
> 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
>

IIRC from 680x0 part that's triggered using an illegal m68k instruction,
that way the host notices there's something to do. On AmigaOS you could use
a HFS partition directly (or a hardfile), I think that on other systems
too. I think it was used mostly for drivers.


> 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.
>
> I never tried, I think I copied/modified stuff from host and later opened
it from emulation but never simultaneusly (I didn't put MacOS to copy big
files between different partitions or directories and in addition to that
copied more stuff from the host). It could be interesting, let us know if
that works without corrupting the partition :-)


Best regards
Jaime