How to use CFFA and smart drive

[dungeonkim]

hello?

I know that CFFA and Smart drive are implemented.
But I don't know how to use them.
Can I use them to read from or write to a file?
(I want to use a .hdv file.)
Or can I speed up reading and writing while using drive2 ?

[iflan]

Hi there,

800 KB disk images work as expected:

• hdv: DotNIB_SST
• 2mg: Apple 5.25 Drive Test 1.0.2

32 MB disk images work, also:

• hdv: Total Replay v4.01
• 2mg: Total Replay v3.0

To load a local image, click on the folder icon, then Choose File, the Open. If the file is not a floppy, then the emulator will automatically mount it as a smart port disk. You'll know that this has happened because the image name won't show for Drive 1 or Drive 2. There can only be one smart port disk, though.

Once the disk image is mounted, you can press Control--Reset to reboot to the image. You can also press Control-Reset then PR#7 to boot to the image.

Currently, if you want to save a modified disk image, you have to download the image again by clicking on the floppy disk symbol. I'm trying to make the emulator read and write local files directly, but that's very much a work in progress that I haven't been able to spend much time on recently.

Hope that helps!

[dungeonkim]

The reason I thought .hdv was not working was because my .hdv file size was smaller than 800 * 1024.
In this case, an error saying that it could not be loaded appeared and I thought it could not be done.

Thank you so much for making such a great emulator.