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Feature Request: Increade HDD size | More HDD's
I'd like to request the following features:
- Being able to increase the HDD size (from 8MB to 16MB for example)
- Being able to have multiple HDD's
In this case I'd like to create a 16MB or 32MB version of the SymbOS harddisk file so I can add some extra stuff. Right now this would require building a complete new disk. And since I am requesting stuff now anyway:
- MSX-Audio support
- MSX Network support
Hi! How are you?
Not sure what you mean "increase HDD size"... Would that be dynamic? This is almost impossible, because it would change the partition tables, file allocation tables, etc... You see, WebMSX helps you create HDDs of various sizes, but it will never be a full-featured Disk Partitioning Tool... This feature would be complex, and VERY rarely used.... There are much better disk image tools you could use if you need to manipulate disk images.
In respect to "having multiple HDDs", why would you need that in normal emulator use? Do you have an application that requires 2 HDDs to work? Or you need that just to copy files between images, and only when trying to create a new bigger disk based on another disk? If so, again this would be VERY rarely used, and you could use other disk image tools to achieve that. This must be verified whether Nextor even supports more than one active HDD. I think it may support, but will require a considerable change on the emulator interface.
Not sure if I really understood what you need, but it sounds like a very very specific image manipulation need that would require 2 new complex features on the emulator, that would practically never be used in normal operation...
MSX-AUDIO: already in the roadmap! :-) Network: needs exploration, but may be impossible since we cannot have direct low access to the network from inside the browser sandbox. TCP/IP ports, sending packets, making connections, these are totally blocked and unavailable.
Paulo
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 3:18 PM TFHFony [email protected] wrote:
I'd like to request the following features:
- Being able to increase the HDD size (from 8MB to 16MB for example)
- Being able to have multiple HDD's
In this case I'd like to create a 16MB or 32MB version of the SymbOS harddisk file so I can add some extra stuff. Right now this would require building a complete new disk. And since I am requesting stuff now anyway:
- MSX-Audio support
- MSX Network support
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Hi,
I already was afraid that dynamically changing the size would not be possible due to FAT issues. As for the use case: I have run into a few occasions that I would like to copy stuff from one harddisk image to another. And I have to clue on how to do that right now. I know that on a real MSX you can add more harddisk interfaces. Is there a tool that can easily work with the harddisk images WebMSX uses? The diskmanager I use can only see the contents of the main directory.
Kind Regards,
Arnaud
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:20 PM ppeccin [email protected] wrote:
Hi! How are you?
Not sure what you mean "increase HDD size"... Would that be dynamic? This is almost impossible, because it would change the partition tables, file allocation tables, etc... You see, WebMSX helps you create HDDs of various sizes, but it will never be a full-featured Disk Partitioning Tool... This feature would be complex, and VERY rarely used.... There are much better disk image tools you could use if you need to manipulate disk images.
In respect to "having multiple HDDs", why would you need that in normal emulator use? Do you have an application that requires 2 HDDs to work? Or you need that just to copy files between images, and only when trying to create a new bigger disk based on another disk? If so, again this would be VERY rarely used, and you could use other disk image tools to achieve that. This must be verified whether Nextor even supports more than one active HDD. I think it may support, but will require a considerable change on the emulator interface.
Not sure if I really understood what you need, but it sounds like a very very specific image manipulation need that would require 2 new complex features on the emulator, that would practically never be used in normal operation...
MSX-AUDIO: already in the roadmap! :-) Network: needs exploration, but may be impossible since we cannot have direct low access to the network from inside the browser sandbox. TCP/IP ports, sending packets, making connections, these are totally blocked and unavailable.
Paulo
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 3:18 PM TFHFony [email protected] wrote:
I'd like to request the following features:
- Being able to increase the HDD size (from 8MB to 16MB for example)
- Being able to have multiple HDD's
In this case I'd like to create a 16MB or 32MB version of the SymbOS harddisk file so I can add some extra stuff. Right now this would require building a complete new disk. And since I am requesting stuff now anyway:
- MSX-Audio support
- MSX Network support
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BTW: Good to hear about MSX-Audio... ashame to hear about the networking. It would be cool to use the network options in SymbOS.