livingcomputermuseum / ContrAlto

This repository contains the source code for Living Computers: Museum+Labs's Xerox Alto emulator, ContrAlto.
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Not an issue: Question about creating disk packs #7

Open marciot opened 7 years ago

marciot commented 7 years ago

What is the procedure for creating a disk pack from scratch? I would like to create a bootable disk pack that only has Maze War on it so I can include a playable demo of the original with my VR remake.

Deleting files from an existing disk pack is not ideal since I want the empty space to be zeros so that the disk pack is highly compressible. The best scenario would be if I could create a zero filled file the same size as an existing disk pack, format it on the Alto, and then copy only the files over to boot the system and to play Maze War. It would also be nice if the system could be set up to boot Maze War automatically from that disk.

Can any of this be done?