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That would be a great feature for the FN team to add if possible so we could read & write direct to the SD card from SDX. Would that be possible ?

Wow that's amazing - looks like it's a prop from an Indiana Jones movie 😮

Ok Jon - you have me intrigued. Are we about to finally get an SDX driver that allows read/write to a FAT partition ?

Ok, I'm confused now (not difficult). I'm running an Altirra config which has PCLink configured/enabled & set to a Virtual Hard Disk on my host PC. I've also got FujiNet-PC setup & that's got a Windows folder setup as the SD card (C:/FujiNet_PC/fujinet_pc/SD). That said I must confess I only vaguely recall why I setup PCLink on Altirra in the first place - I think it was only to enable FujiNet-PC to work but not sure (damn you Sauvignon Blanc). So from the SDX CLI prompt when I type PCL1: & do a DIR it shows me what in the PCLInk Virtual HD & not the SD Card. So my question is how do I get PCL1: to point to the FujiNet SD card? I thought from what you said above that's what FujiNet does? Or do I need to disable PCLink on Altirra & let Fujinet-PC do the work ? As ever thanks again for any help.

Hi - just wondering if there has been any joy on this? I am ideally wanting to use Fenrock's forthcoming updated CONFIGNG.COM to browse for TNFS-based stuff, quit back to & then find a way of elegantly passing that back to acess via SDX all under Altirra? But currently the Altirra drive slots & the CONFIG.COM / CONFIGNG.COM appear to be mutually exclusive ? Thanks

Does anyone know if the alternate CONFIG that Fenrock is developing will include the above requested function - IE the ability to run CONFIG from the SDX prompt & quit back out into SDX ? Would be really neat if that could be included.

Yes please Thom

Yes please Thom

Hi Tom I'm sure I'm being a bit thick but could you plse expand on the above a bit please. I'm running an emulated config under Altirra but with U1Mb & SIDE3 (but disabled as per your video above) & I'm using the FujiNet PC Launcher app to emulate the FujiNet device. As you instruct in the video in the web UI I've set the SIO Status wait routine to No & sure enough when I DIR D1: from the SDX prompt up comes the FujiNet directory & I can run CONFIG.COM & up it runs no problem. But as the OP above asks - I don't get how I can then quit out back to the SDX prompt. If I hit the (virtual Launcher) SD button I get a dialog box in Windows. Obvs I'm doing something stupid - can you offer any help plse ?

Do you have the original version plse ?

Ok thanks anyway for trying Jon. My hexadecimal uber-rusty but from what you say its not impacting the $700 to $A80 memory space so I wonder why it works on a plain A800 Altirra config without U1MB/SIDE3 ?? Maybe as you say just writhe that one off & carry on.

Any joy on your setups ?

I'm trying to work out if the SIDE3 Loader is a viable platform for running .XEX Demos (forgive me Jon I'm not being in any way derogatory). I haven't tried many but the attached Crazy Cars Demo is an example of a Demo that I can run on a simple 800XL base config - ie just booting to 'Self Test' (all on Altirra with U1Mb emulation) whereas whatever variant configs I try I can't get it to run from U1MB/SIDE3 Loader. The best I can get is to get to run for a second or two then it crashes. So my question is two-fold - first can anyone get the attached .XEX running under U1MB/SIDE3 Loader & second more broadly am I being too ambitious expecting the U1MB/SIDE3 Loader to run Demo .XEX images ? Ideally my aim is to run everything via a Altirra U1Mb/SIDE3 config variants without having to resort to a completely different Altirra config - but am I being unrealistic especially with Demos ? Do I have to accept you have to have a totally non-U1MB/SIDE3 config for running some / many Atari 8-bit Demos? As ever thanks for any help. BONUSDMO.XEX

As I said not complaining about your documentation - more self criticism really

Ah ok thanks for that Thom - not complaining at all but I do find the documentation a bit hard to follow & so make mistakes