home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Message-ID: <xQ0m5MD50D2aizC@trib0039.tribal.line.org>
- From: M_Andree@tribal.line.org (Matthias Andree)
- Path: tribal.line.org!trib0039!M_Andree
- Subject: Re: 100% disk drive emulation?
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 20:29:29 +0100
- X-Mailer: MicroDot 1.11beta16 [REGISTERED 0050d2] via ANUBIS V 0.558 / ZSort V 1.45a
- References: <Dny3Eq.JxC@iglou.com>
- X-Gateway: ZCONNECT XX ius.gun.de [UNIX/Connect v0.73]
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
- sledford@iglou.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford) wrote:
-
- > pashdown@slack.xmission.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
- >
- > >Does anyone know of a utility or hardware device that will allow me to emulate
- > >a disk drive with RAM? I'm not talking about just a RAD: device, but a
- > >complete 100% emulation that would work on misbehaving software like
- > >megademos.
- >
- > I am assuming you mean on an Amiga. :-) There is a program on Aminet
- > called "HFMounter" in disk/misc/HFM2_0.lha. It can mount up to 10 virtual
- > 880K floppy disks on your hard drive. Each disk is a file around 900,000
- > bytes in size. After you first create the disk-files, you can later
- > simply mount them with it's own special mount command (HFM).
-
- HFMounter is actually the GUI or front-end to the underlying
- fmsdisk.device which provides virtual disks, or file partitions, if you
- want.
-
- But the point is: if the demo's loader pokes the hardware registers,
- there is no chance to get them to work without fixing loaders.
-
- --
- MATTHIAS ANDREE
- Amiga 4000 PGP public key available on request.
-