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   Michael Schwingen to ppera@ppest.org   
   Re: ST TOS cartridge?   
   28 Jun 09 08:06:19   
   
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   From: news-1235297497@discworld.dascon.de   
      
   On 2009-06-24, pp  wrote:   
   >   
   > However, there is little confusion with that 'C' for cartridge.  It is   
   > shown as low case 'c', not capital. With reason - it is not like C   
   > drive (hard disk).  Cartridge handle in TOS supports only access to   
   > executables from Desktop. You can not open some other file. So, it is   
   > not equal as partition C. And it is logical, as c and C is actually   
   > same for filesystem. In other words, cartridge holds not regular   
   > files.   
      
   Both is possible. You can have a cartridge that installs a driver which   
   makes the cartridge show up as a regular drive - like a ramdisk or harddisk,   
   only read-only. In that case, it will use any available drive letter from   
   "C" up, just like any other disk drive - BTDT.   
      
   > You can put on cartridge any game what can stay in 128KB (but can SFX   
   > pack it of course), and is only 1, executable file.   
      
   Using bankswitching, you can have more then 128k, and with a driver that   
   maps the disk as a normal drive, this will be transparent to the application   
   - if it runs from harddisk, it will run from such a cartridge.   
      
   cu   
   Michael   
      
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