8 Apr
2007
8 Apr
'07
3:30 p.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
...
Aha - I will try that, thanks.
I'm still concerned about what documentation
and resources there are
out there for the cat though - I mean quite a few must have been sold,
and owners must have thrown together quite a bit of code to drive them
- but every time I've dug around on the 'net it's been unclear as to
what kind of user community exists to actively share code and
experiences.
(Plus I really don't want to be driving the thing under a heavyweight
OS like Windows - and God knows what the resources and docs are
available for the alternatives)
Join the following yahoo group: Catweasel-Dev at yahoogroups.com
Jens Shoenfeld, the creator of the catweasel is active there, along with
various people of varying degrees of involvement. I've written code to read (not write) PTDOS disks,
and another to do
hard sectored Wang disks (again read, not write).
Writing would be nice - but I'm more concerned about preserving media before
it dies than anything; being able to recreate it can take a back seat if it
has to!
recently the author changed things to expose the low
level read/write
track commands at driver level, and then leave the format decoding to a
user mode program (which is how it should have been all along, for my
purposes).
That seems the sensible way to do it to me too; operate at the track level
when talking to the low-level driver, with all the serious decoding / encoding
done within a user-space app.
cheers
Jules