Re: [hatari-devel] IPF support added to the FDC emulation

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 11/12/2013 17:30, Matthias Arndt a écrit :
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.12.2013, 00:51 +0100 schrieb Nicolas Pomarède:
> > Hello
> >
> > I just merged a devel branch I had from over a year (summer 2012) that
> > adds IPF support to the FDC emulation.
> > [...]
> >
> > Have fun testing all of this :)
> >
> > Nicolas
>
> Interesting thing and surely another plus for Hatari!
>
> How is the state for PASTI support, .stx files, as those are more
> readily available in comparison?

Unfortunately, the state of PASTI is the same as before, that is close 
to nothing :(

I'd really like to have an external library I could use, but there's no 
such thing, and apart from some reverse engineering, there's a complete 
lack of documentation (as far as I know, Hxc author (the SD card floppy 
emulator) even stopped working on improving pasti support due to the 
lack of infos).

So, I don't know, maybe I will write an emulation layer for pasti from 
scratch, not very inspiring and quite time consuming, and I don't have 
that much time at the moment ...

While rewriting the fdc part in Hatari lately, I tried to be as close to 
the real HW as possible, so this would benefit to a pasti implementation 
as one part of the work is already done.
But the big part is about decoding the pasti file and feeding the 
correct bytes in response to all the FDC commands, and this is quite a 
lot of work.

Nicolas