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tomas-nestorovic / RIDE

Windows tool for low-level access to any floppy disks, and comfortable high-level access to some legacy filesystems (ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS, etc.).
https://nestorovic.hyperlink.cz/ride/html/index.html
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Internal floppy (fdrawcmd): Add support for drive B #48

Closed tomas-nestorovic closed 3 years ago

tomas-nestorovic commented 4 years ago

Internal 5.25" floppy drives are known to be physically present as drives B: on a typical retro computer. To mediate access to them, a new switch in the "FDD access options" should be added, allowing to select either Drive A (usually 3.5") or Drive B (usually 5.25").

This way should also be fine with the idea of allowing direct dumping/patching between floppies inserted at a time in drives A and B (e.g. because they are both 3.5", or because they have common geometry).

It musn't be fotgotten to change the hyperlink caption in the Open dialog from current "Access floppy inserted in internal drive A" to "Access floppy inserted in internal drive A or B".

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tomas-nestorovic commented 3 years ago

Over the past thirteen months since the last commit, this issue has been constantly evaluated for functionality, and can thus be closed. Any further improvements should be made to the more general Issue #60.