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2016-05-30 20:20

Compyx

Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631

VICE: attach disk image and run .prg file from OS filesystem

With VICE (2.4.27 on Linux), I'm trying to figure out how to attach a D64 image to drive 8 (with TDE) while running a .prg file from my OS file system.

I've tried a wide variety of command line options, but I either get a message about extra arguments on the command line, or VICE tries to load the .prg file from the attached disk image, which obviously fails as well.

Does anyone know how to do this? I'm trying to keep my assemble-run-debug cycle as fast as possible.

/Compyx

2016-05-30 20:30

Burglar

Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1101

why not inject that prg into the d64 as well?

2016-05-30 20:40

Compyx

Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631

That was my next option. I think c1541 is fast enough for that. I was just curious why VICE doesn't seem to allow this. I've looked through all the command line options (thank fuck for `less`), but no luck so far.

I'm probably trying to do something backwards, as usual ;)

2016-05-30 21:04

iAN CooG

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3193

Because when you're loading a prg from host filesystem Vice is already faking a virtual device 8 (prg will turn virtual device traps on and true drive emulation off), and you can't have both a virtual and "real" device 8 at the same time.
You can simply build your d64 with the needed files prior to launching vice.

2016-05-30 21:22

Compyx

Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631

I just did, and that works fine. Although VICE seems to have the `autostart-handle-tde` options backwards:

-autostart-handle-tde
        Handle True Drive Emulation on autostart
+autostart-handle-tde
        Do not handle True Drive Emulation on autostart

When I use `+autostart-handle-tde` VICE uses TDE to load my file, which takes quite a while for a 202 blocks file (even with warp). When I use `-autostart-handle-tde`, TDE is skipped and my file is loaded pretty much immediately.

Normally VICE uses +<option> to invert that option's behaviour, or am I slowly going insane? ;)

2016-05-30 21:34

Frantic

Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648

the + - owls are not always what they seem

2016-05-30 21:50

Compyx

Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631

Indeed. Well, at least I got the stuff working the way I wanted.

Can't find any weird stuff in the VICE sources when it comes to handling those autostart settings after a quick glance. Seems to behave the way the docs state, just not when actually running VICE.

2016-05-30 21:58

markus sinalco
Account closed

Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 112

btw, is there any ".d64 Editor" for linux based systems ?.

2016-05-30 22:24

Compyx

Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631

Not that I'm aware of.

I'm working on one, already got most of the backend working (C library that handles D64, D71, D81, T64, ARK, ZipCode and a few other images/containers). Just need to decide on a GUI toolkit for the frontend, I'm probably stuck with Gtk3 since Qt needs C++, and I really don't like C++.

You could always use c1541 which comes with VICE, but that's of limited use if you want to do BAM manipulation or dir art.

2016-05-31 04:44

Flavioweb

Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 463

Quoting markus sinalco