Gerry wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 6:20 pm
Quick question: Obviously, the X16 firmware knows how to 'decode' an .img file as shown in my previous posting. Does the X16 firmware also know how to make a .img file from a regular subdirectory?
Thank you,
Gerry
No, because if it did, we would have told you to do it that way.
And honestly, there's no reason to use the SD Card emulation at this point. That was developed back before MooingLemur did so much work to implement all the CMDR-DOS commands in the emulator, so the emulator's file I/O is virtually identical to the SD Card file I/O at this point. There are some small differences, but the differences don't affect any of the documented file I/O commands.
Some people use the SD card image for performance testing, but even that isn't really a valid test, because the emulator is not an SD card, and the performance is still going to be a little bit different than hardware.