DIY QuickDisk-emulator for MZ-800

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Jo Even
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DIY QuickDisk-emulator for MZ-800

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Geir Øyvind has written an article about his MZ-800 QuickDisk-emulator on the website:

https://sharpmz.org/articles/the-mz-ser ... -emulator/
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Re: DIY QuickDisk-emulator for MZ-800

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Very good.
Does this version read or / and write to a file in dsk (cpc) format?
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Not sure what you mean, are you asking if the emulator can "mount" DSK-files and allow the MZ to access files within such a disk image? I can't see anything in the sources for the QD-emulator that allows this.
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I have not looked at the sources yet, I should have started with that.
Theoretically, there should be no limit to embedding read / write files in dsk format in the QD emulator.
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I think the image are probably mzq (a format close to the image inside QD) but I may be wrong.
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Pacman wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:05 pmTheoretically, there should be no limit to embedding read / write files in dsk format in the QD emulator.
The only way to do that would be for the emulator to treat DSK images as virtual QuickDisks, like it does with directories (on the SD-card) today. But I'm not sure why one would want to do this.
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The fact that MZ-800 is able to read/write QD through its ROM (unlike MZ-700) may a good indication that it should be possible if the emulated QD controller handles all the possibilities given by the Z8440 registers. A look at the arduino file shows there is that function "qdisk_write_byte_into_drive" and the contents seem to indicate that we can write in the image or in a mzf file of a virtual QD (folder).
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