Emax

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:07:03AM -0000, djfiorucci wrote:
> Would one of you look at converting the EMX to a windows or Mac OSX 
> program the source code is in the files section and the author Mike Prudence 
> has given his permission for anyone that wants to convert it.

Problem with a MacOS X version is that the (current) machines do not
have a floppy drive at all...
Older machines may be able to read/write the format -- I don't know. I
suppose they do.
If they are able to do it, the next question is whether there is support
in the operating system for it, and how it is used. But using a machine
with MacOS X likely means using a machine without floppy, and using a
machine with floppy means OS9 or older, and I have no experience of
programming in that environment.

For Windows, most machines are still equipped with a floppy, and there
is probably a way to write 800K disks... however a (very quick) google
search doesn't yield much.
http://www.wilcom.com.au/support/truesizer/faq_display.cfm?id=283
doesn't sound promising. Maybe XP just doesn't support it.

I thought about a linux-on-a-floppy (or on CD) which could be booted on
a windows machine, and which could contain the needed tools to access
images on the harddisk and write floppies. It could be more convenient
than booting DOS and doing it there.

Anyway, it would be cool to have a low-level library to
format/read/write disks which works on more than one OS, which could be
used by EMAXLIB or other programs (like a simple port of good old EMX).

Peter
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