From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   Knut Roll-Lund wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   ...   
   Had an idea: It would probably be possible to write a driver for LDOS or   
   DOSPLUS on David Keil's emulator to see a directory as a drive by   
   supplying data from the pc instead of a disk. Then we know the dos and   
   can fake all the I/O functions.   
      
   The only problem with this is that I don't think David Keil's emulator   
   is the most popular any more.   
      
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   Knut   
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