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- On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Pat Gunn wrote:
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- <snip>
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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 ...
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- 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...
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- jeff
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