[hatari-devel] Pasti support and other things

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On Friday 24 September 2010, Markus Fritze wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > The floppy subsystem needs a major rewrite anyway, I think, so it's ok
> > to mess around in all files there, I guess. When you're ready, please
> > send your patches to this mailing list so we can review them.
>
> It was ported vom WinSTon, right?

Yes.

This documents where different things came from:
	http://hg.berlios.de/repos/hatari/raw-file/tip/doc/authors.txt


> I started writing on a state machine for the FDC, which handles thinks
> like different data rates, spin-up time, settle time for head movements,
> etc. and all the standard FDC commands. I also plan to support fuzzy
> sectors (sectors with wrong timing, that creates unstable bits). For
> simple disk formats it should still work with read track (it just puts
> the sectors into a "formatted" track), for Pasti files it hopefully does
> better :-) This will take a bit time (strangely I have a full-time job,
> too :-), I'll keep you updated.

I'm sure everybody's interested on that! :-)

* Pasti allows testing things that we couldn't have tested earlier
* There are also couple of non-Pasti things that won't work with the current
  FDC emulation:
  http://hg.berlios.de/repos/hatari/raw-file/tip/doc/compatibility.html

But please keep the "fast" FCD access feature as most of the things
work without accurate timings i.e. slow FDC emulation.


	- Eero