Re: [hatari-devel] STX support and more

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 27/05/2014 12:12, Nicolas Pomarède a écrit :
> Hello
>
>
> I just committed my changes to support Pasti / STX file format, as well
> as many FDC improvements that should make Hatari the most accurate ST's
> emulator when it comes to floppy :)

New changes for the STX support : Hatari now support writing to an STX 
image ! (and is certainly the 1st emulator to do so :) )

For now, only 'write sectors' is supported ('write track' will be added 
after Hatari 1.8)

When sectors are written, they will be saved in memory snapshots and 
restored on the next load.

Modifications are also stored in a new file format I named ".wd1772". 
This is a rather simple but extensible format capable of storing all 
write to sectors or tracks, with precise timing informations.

For each .stx file, a .wd1772 file will be created when changes are 
made. The .wd1772 file will only contain the new data. This means that 
when reading from a .stx file, we 1st look for the data in the .wd1772 
file, and if not found we use the original data from the .stx file.

If you know games that save highscores, please report your results here 
(some game like Platoon won't work yet, because they also use 'write track')

Nicolas