6 Jul
2001
6 Jul
'01
1:38 a.m.
At 12:19 AM 7/6/01 +0100, Gareth Knight wrote:
I'm not sure about writing directly to a hardfile.
I find it more useful to
copy the hard disk to a Windows directory and have the emulator use this as
a virtual hard disk. It is easier to manipulate file formats using the two
operating systems.
It looks like the Amiga Forever (commercial $30) package includes
a tool called "Amiga Explorer" to mount an Amiga's drive over the
network to the emulator, which would allow you to copy the
remote hard drive partition to a new emulated hardfile, because
it's a file system.
Amiga Explorer is a Windows namespace extension, placing your
networked Amiga on the same level of as "My Computer", which
would allow you to copy to a hardfile while using the emulator:
http://www.softhut.com/cloanto/aexplorer_screen1.html
I would guess that what I created with 'packdev' is an
exact copy of the partition's blocks, but minus the other
partition info that's no doubt included in the hardfile.
I'd feel like I'd truly archived my Amiga if I had a
hardfile, written from the Amiga and stored as a single
file across the network.
I don't like the feel of these networked filesystems, mapping
between Windows and Amiga. I know deep in my heart some bits
will be lost, be they file comments, improperly mapped and
remapped characters, file attribute bits, etc.
- John