From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   vad wrote:   
   > Do any of the top, current TRS-80/HT-1080z emulators (xtrs, trs32,   
   > David Keil's emu, HT1080z, MESS, etc.) offer a "virtual disk folder"   
   > feature?   
   >   
   > By this I mean a mechanism where the emulator would "watch" an arbitray   
   > host OS folder, say ..\virtualdrive1-- I mean there would be a   
   > directory called 'virtualdrive1' in Windows XP or Linux, etc.-- and   
   > whenever the emulators FDC was accessed the emulator would take the   
   > time to actually, on-the-fly, create the .DMK/.DSK image in memory   
   > based on the 'virtualdrive1', etc.   
   >   
   > Is this trivial, difficult or somehow impossible to impliment?   
   >   
   > It seems like this would be one of the few (only?) major missing   
   > features of the emulators.... that and a time travel machine feature.   
   > :)   
   >   
   Such a feature, seeing a pc directory as a disk, poses some problems.   
      
   The different dos's, and model I vs III vs 4 versions of the same dos,   
   have different formats on the disk, so for the emulator to create a disk   
   from a directory it wouldn't be easy to decide what format to use.   
      
   Some dos'es are more popular than others, like NEWDOS80 and LDOS but   
   there are many more and they are all a bit different in how they format   
   a disk. I use DOSPLUS. One could use the original TRSDOS format and do   
   SSSD40 but many dos'es need to REPAIR such a disk before use.   
      
   HT1080Z can load a file directly from the pc disk. David Keil's can load   
   cmd's (need to boot a dos first and to type the name into the emulator   
   not very convenient). In both cases it only works for single file   
   programs. HT1080Z is nice because it can use drag & drop. Start HT1080Z   
   by dragging a cmd and dropping it in HT1080Z's icon.   
      
   For David Keil's emulator I have made a utility that might help you. It   
   will show pc files in in the emulator making it easy to select and copy   
   files to/from a TRS-80 floppy (virtual or real). X/CMD it looks a bit   
   like norton commander http://home.online.no/~kr-lund/emul-x.htm.   
      
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