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Re: executor-digest V1 #310
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Pat Gunn wrote:
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> My Executor running under PC-DOS and OS/2 works like a charm with reading,
> writing, and formatting disks. No problems here.
>
> >I have been trying to get diskcopy to recreate a floppy from an image
> >file. On a real mac, diskcopy ejects the current floppy, prompts the user
> >for a new diskette, and waits for a disk-insert event. Under executor,
> >this doesn't happen, so diskcopy is not useable. Does anyone of
> >you know a workaround for that? And out of curiosity, probably more
> >programs rely on disk-insert events, how is ardi going to handle that?
>
> I recall that PC-Tools, or was it Norton Utilities, no matter, one of them used to have a
> way to have the disk drive sit there scaning for new disks, and when a disk was inserted,
> it would continue the program ... I suppose maybe something similar could be done under
> Executor, except there's the problem of notebook computers having their power gobbled by a
> continually scanning Disk Drive ...
I remember years ago the Spectre 128 Mac emulator for the Atari ST
(it used 128k Mac-ROMS). What they did is had a big flashing 'A' or 'B'
in the corner of the screen when the software wanted to eject a disk.
Then you eject the disk manually. When you inserted a disk, you had to
press 'F1' for drive A, or 'F2' for drive B, to tell the 'mac' that a
new disk was inserted. Macs back then didn't have function keys...
jeff
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