So, as I'm sure you all know, floppy emulators like the ReActiveMicro Microdrive Turbo use cards, like a compact flash card and even IDE drives, to emulate floppies. Each "Volume" on the Microdrive Turbo can be up to 32 MB. My question is, is there a way to use that space to create a menu of disk images that would otherwise have to boot from their own floppy, or their own Volume on the card , so that I could simply boot into one Volume on the card and choose what to run off a menu? Apparently there are a limited number of volumes that ca be added to the card because each two volumes are allocated one virtual slot. Is a menu what Ciderpress can do? I've looked at it but honestly, it's friggin' confusing. Thanks!
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As far as I know the Microdrive (Turbo) cannot do this. I have a Microdrive running in my IIGS. I know two cards with a build in menu. The CFFA3000 and the DAN ][ controller have menues. The one from the CFFA3000 can be started vie a call command. The one from the DAN ][ Controller is available at boot only.
The Xdrive also has a built-in menu: https://maceffects.com/products/xdrive-mass-storage-solutions-for-the-apple-ii-ii-iie-and-iigs
Thanks all!
You do know that you can at boot choose the partition you want to boot?
How does tihs work with the Microdrive Turbo?
You can do this sort of thing with DOS.MASTER. There is a distribution already with something like 100 games on it.
It allows you to make "partitions" that are basically DOS 3.3 disk images, then access them easily through a custom RWTS.
It is easy to add new or make a whole new collection.
https://www.applefritter.com/content/glen-bredons-dosmaster-prodos-drives
Yes, but each two volumes talk up a virtual slot. So you can't have more than several volumes.