Is there information out there on the APE mirror loader?

[Bryan]

I'm curious whether there's a good way to transfer large files from the PC. I'm talking about files that might be too big for use in disk images, but might be used for things like streaming large amounts of data or flashing large ROMs. One method I thought of is the 'Mirror' function which sends files without the normal DOS stuff. Is there code out there on how this is done? Is there a file size limit or does it just send until it's done?

[Roydea6]

SpartaDos 448 and PCLINK.SYS + RespeQT with PCLINK support.

 

On command line type COPY PCL1:FILENAME.EXT

[Bryan]

Thanks, but what about DOS limitations? Could I access a 2MB file, for example?

 

What I want is something like a 2MB Flash connected to the A8 and an app that tells you to enable an APE mirror to the file and it will then program the Flash.

[Roydea6]

Thanks, but what about DOS limitations? Could I access a 2MB file, for example?

 

What I want is something like a 2MB Flash connected to the A8 and an app that tells you to enable an APE mirror to the file and it will then program the Flash.

SIO timeouts taken into consideration and space on the disk, partition, or ATR is about the it.

[Bryan]

Thanks. I guess I didn't realize it was all using PCLINK protocol. So that's what I need to look into.

[Rybags]

Pretty sure various people like FJC and drac030 have looked into the PC mirror functions of APE and Aspeqt.

 

The "old" way was that the peripheral emulator would fudge a Dos file and just walk the link among 2 or 3 sector numbers which would guarantee a large file not failing.

The problem though is that SpartaDos could get confused due to it's caching getting screwed up (?)

 

Not sure if a proper solution was come to - one possible idea I think was to use a much bigger range of sector numbers.