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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?

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.

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