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ESProfle Image Management?
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote from: stepleton on April 14, 2025, 04:13:03 am ---Meanwhile, what's this about a 32 MB Workshop volume? I had assumed that it could only be 5 or 10 MB if it wasn't a Priam drive...
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It doesn't work in stock LOS/Workshop, but you can do it if you patch the ProFile driver properly. I'm planning on revealing all of my progress with compiling LOS during a presentation at VCF Southwest in June (hopefully I'll be done by then), so I'll probably wait and share the details then, but it sure comes in handy for fitting all that source code on a single volume!
And interestingly enough, you can actually use up to a 16MB ProFile (or really closer to 15MB if you exclude the tag bytes) without the patch! Just make an image of 30,000 blocks or smaller, and it'll work fine.
stepleton:
Fair enough I guess, but I find this kind of proprietary "I've got a secret" posture... fairly motivating. I might try to find out how to patch the ProFile driver, and if I work it out between now and June, I might spill the beans.
Don't worry too much, it's not long till VCF SW and I'm busy.
AlexTheCat123:
I totally understand; I find the whole "secret" thing really motivating myself! And as you can probably tell from everything that's freely available on my GitHub, I don't normally like doing things this way where I keep everything a secret. It's just that this is a pretty massive project, and I think it would be a lot more exciting to reveal it all at once at an event like this than to reveal it piece by piece along the way. And besides, I'm not even done yet! But rest assured that I'll be sharing all the details and files that I possibly can once that date comes around so that everyone else can replicate things! I hope that all makes sense.
pablo_marx:
Please tell me this secret doesn't involve writing a Monitor/Workshop executable emulator that intercepts "syscalls"/traps in order to map them to standard POSIX functions, allowing the old tooling to be ran from a modern command line with full access to the local filesystem (ala https://github.com/ksherlock/mpw, https://github.com/eschaton/MINIXCompat, etc).
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote from: pablo_marx on April 14, 2025, 06:08:38 pm ---Please tell me this secret doesn't involve writing a Monitor/Workshop executable emulator that intercepts "syscalls"/traps in order to map them to standard POSIX functions, allowing the old tooling to be ran from a modern command line with full access to the local filesystem (ala https://github.com/ksherlock/mpw, https://github.com/eschaton/MINIXCompat, etc).
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No, it doesn't; even though it's painfully slow, I made a rule for myself that I have to do everything on original hardware without any modern emulators or other techniques (aside from a hard drive emulator) to help me along.
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