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#1577 Check disk status
The "@" command in the monitor allows you to issue disk commands.
I haven't tested all combinations but using it, there are a few issues:
1) Normally on the native machine, using only the @ could give you the disk status. In order to access this feature I now freeze and use the command from the action replay monitor, which really shouldn't be needed. Would welcome if this was implemented.
2) I have tested @s:filename but that doesn't scratch the file. Which of the commands are supported? If there are restrictions to the supported commands, I would suggest updating the infotext to list the supported ones.
At least with TDE it doesnt work, indeed ... did you check if it does with virtual device? THat would be my guess - because when you are in the monitor the drive emulation is halted, the monitor cant send commands to the emulated drive :)
so well... i had a look. First of all, like i said, this only works with virtual drive (not TDE). This can not be changed either, the emulation is halted when the monitor is active and that means the drive can not accept commands. that pretty much means 1) can not be done :)
2) is more subtle... basically all commands that vdrive understands should work BUT the code passed ascii into a function that expects petscii (so @S:FILENAME would have actually worked). this is fixed now in r40969