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[IPIPP]

Hello,

i think that a CD-ROM should be added, which had more space than a floppy disk,
but you need two peripherals to use it:
CD-burner
CD-drive
and once a file is burnt on a CD-ROM, you couldn't delete it.
Please feel free to post your feedback.

[Lyqyd]

This has been repeatedly suggested. At this point, it looks unlikely that another form of external storage will be added.

Also, please note that you can configure the floppy disk size to be however large or small you like.

[dan200]

Why do you say unlikely? I expanded the capabilities of the Media API just this update!

[Cranium]

That is true, but I think he's saying that as a Vanilla ComputerCraft update. You're saying it is something you'd consider?

[blipman17]

then you might consider the external 1TB hard drive. but with an extreme expensive craftigrecepy. and it should take damage when written to it. It also should be bricked when detatched from a computer that is on.

[theoriginalbit]

blipman17, on 10 April 2014 - 08:17 PM, said:

then you might consider the external 1TB hard drive. but with an extreme expensive craftigrecepy. and it should take damage when written to it. It also should be bricked when detatched from a computer that is on.

oh yeah, 'cause that's not taking it to the extreme. if you need 1TB — if you need more than a floppy — for ComputerCraft programs then you have a serious problem!

[logsys]

theoriginalbit, on 10 April 2014 - 10:35 PM, said:

blipman17, on 10 April 2014 - 08:17 PM, said:

then you might consider the external 1TB hard drive. but with an extreme expensive craftigrecepy. and it should take damage when written to it. It also should be bricked when detatched from a computer that is on.

oh yeah, 'cause that's not taking it to the extreme. if you need 1TB — if you need more than a floppy — for ComputerCraft programs then you have a serious problem!

if you want to have a 1TB drive in computercraft, where would you save those files in a 600GB Harddrive present on your computer? Also, damaging would be easy if dan200 made floppy disks work as they where partitions, but that would use much resources and, at shutdown, you would need to unmount it. That would open the way to Virtual Disks.

[viluon]

Well, a few more updates and you will have a 1TB of code compressed to fit on a floppy disk! not really, but this is just the first release:

http://www.computerc...public-release/

Edited by viluon, 11 April 2014 - 06:35 PM.

[blipman17]

okay, lets just make it a gig then. I just wrote a number with 1 TB. I was personally thinking about soundfiles using openmods stuff. So a gig should be plenty. Also i would suggest a cd would not have 700 MB because that would be already big and overkill. In my opinion it should still be challenging to copy data without using any form of a network.

[theoriginalbit]

blipman17, on 12 April 2014 - 01:10 PM, said:

Also i would suggest a cd would not have 700 MB because that would be already big and overkill. In my opinion it should still be challenging to copy data without using any form of a network.

So you want a 1TB drive why then? You know that 1TB > 700MB right?

[Csstform]

blipman17, on 12 April 2014 - 01:10 PM, said:

okay, lets just make it a gig then. I just wrote a number with 1 TB. I was personally thinking about soundfiles using openmods stuff. So a gig should be plenty. Also i would suggest a cd would not have 700 MB because that would be already big and overkill. In my opinion it should still be challenging to copy data without using any form of a network.

theoriginalbit, on 12 April 2014 - 02:02 PM, said:

So you want a 1TB drive why then? You know that 1TB > 700MB right?

'Nuff said.

[Bomb Bloke]

blipman17 is talking about a HDD peripheral, which would generally be expected to have a larger capacity then a CD.

[apemanzilla]

Tbh, I think it would be more fun just to write a virtual file system that "merges" two attached disks for double the storage. Because why not

[CometWolf]

scratch that, make it support unlimited attached disks, for unlimited storage! Now i wanna go make that lol...

[apemanzilla]

CometWolf, on 15 April 2014 - 02:42 PM, said:

scratch that, make it support unlimited attached disks, for unlimited storage! Now i wanna go make that lol...

I've already started on the VFS :3

Want to work on it together?

[CometWolf]

I suppose i could use a break from Turtle Architect V2 anyways. i've got 4k lines and counting, and they're driving me crazy I've no idea where to start on something like a VFS though. I can only assume we'd have to globally override the fs functions to somehow handle split files.

[apemanzilla]

CometWolf, on 15 April 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:

I suppose i could use a break from Turtle Architect V2 anyways. i've got 4k lines and counting, and they're driving me crazy I've no idea where to start on something like a VFS though. I can only assume we'd have to globally override the fs functions to somehow handle split files.

Well, I've already started a virtual file system for a different project. Basically the way it works is it lets you register a virtual folder with a given override type. Then, it overrides the FS API to check for any calls relating to the virtual folders. If it finds one, it redirects and localizes the arguments and calls the override function. Overrides will be able to be loaded from a file, so we would finish the VFS and make an override type that "combines" two disks. I'll PM you when I get back to my computer

[logsys]

apemanzilla, on 15 April 2014 - 06:11 PM, said:

CometWolf, on 15 April 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:

I suppose i could use a break from Turtle Architect V2 anyways. i've got 4k lines and counting, and they're driving me crazy I've no idea where to start on something like a VFS though. I can only assume we'd have to globally override the fs functions to somehow handle split files.

Well, I've already started a virtual file system for a different project. Basically the way it works is it lets you register a virtual folder with a given override type. Then, it overrides the FS API to check for any calls relating to the virtual folders. If it finds one, it redirects and localizes the arguments and calls the override function. Overrides will be able to be loaded from a file, so we would finish the VFS and make an override type that "combines" two disks. I'll PM you when I get back to my computer

Seems good, but would other people be allowed to redistribute it with their own OSes? Also, a good thing would be mounting vhd's files and being able to encrypt them with a password.. I may work at it but I need to get some acknowledgment

[apemanzilla]

logsys, on 16 April 2014 - 01:44 PM, said:

apemanzilla, on 15 April 2014 - 06:11 PM, said:

CometWolf, on 15 April 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:

I suppose i could use a break from Turtle Architect V2 anyways. i've got 4k lines and counting, and they're driving me crazy /> I've no idea where to start on something like a VFS though. I can only assume we'd have to globally override the fs functions to somehow handle split files.

Well, I've already started a virtual file system for a different project. Basically the way it works is it lets you register a virtual folder with a given override type. Then, it overrides the FS API to check for any calls relating to the virtual folders. If it finds one, it redirects and localizes the arguments and calls the override function. Overrides will be able to be loaded from a file, so we would finish the VFS and make an override type that "combines" two disks. I'll PM you when I get back to my computer />

Seems good, but would other people be allowed to redistribute it with their own OSes? Also, a good thing would be mounting vhd's files and being able to encrypt them with a password.. I may work at it but I need to get some acknowledgment

There'd be no point to distributing it in an OS. Ideally you'd download it separately and set it up, then set up the OS so that the overrides take effect properly. If for some reason you did distribute it within an OS, you'd need to give us proper credit.

[ExDomino]

For me the principal interrest of the CD-ROM is the fact it is a read-only memory. ^^
After burned-it, no body could modify it. Is it not interresting?