Floppy question

[Phil.c]

My emulator has arrived, haven't had a chance to fit it but a question.

If v5.1 has to be re-loaded and the OS is on the stick with other mix projects, how is it actually loaded, because, normally, v5.1 floppy's loaded and are read on bootup to add v5.1?

[arjepsen]

When you use the ipcas software to format the usb-stick, it makes about 100 small partitions on the stick.
Think of each of those partitions as a seperate floppy disk.
Which floppy gets accessed, can be seen on the display on the emulator.
Of course this means, that when you turn on the cpu-unit, it will always be at the first partition/floppy disk. Therefore, if you plan to generally leave the stick in the emulator, it might be a good idea to leave the first partition blank.
(when you turn on the machine, you do have a bit of time to change the partition, before the bios tells the drive to read.)
Same thing when you want to write stuff to the stick - just make sure that you've chosen the partition number you want it to write to.

Hope that makes sense.

[Phil.c]

Thanks, it will be clearer when it's all in and running