Subject: RE: Using Disk Images on original Hardware directl
Author: tIn (pD9528CAF.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date: 02-24-2002 10:12
Unfortunatley not - those Demo/Game Disks I were talking about can't use such an Ethernet device. They are talking directly to the Hardware registers of the Floppy Disk Controller to load their Data - no chance "to squeeze in" ethernet support. Maybe you were talking about copying the Disk Image to the STs Harddisk - that won't work either as you can't use it there without MSAing it back to a Disk...
Ethernet may be a a kind of "workaround" for the Harddisk connection... But isn't an ethernet interface for ST/Falcon rather expensive? A parallel cable would do this job cheaper ;-)
What I'm mainly concerned about is that Floppy Disk thingy. Getting someone to add parallel port support in HD-Driver or something like that would be a secondary benefit, but my main intention is to get rid of using floppy disks.
