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With @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social this weekend, I wanted to create a quick reference post to show people in person what I've been working on. The past week, I've been building a utility to interact w/ Corvus OmniNet OmniDrive disk image dumps from an Apple IIe! :D

Some details so far: The drive uses a custom partitioning scheme called "volumes" which can be easily added/removed on-the-fly. Volume disk image formats can be UCSD Pascal, DOS 3.3, or ProDOS from the Apple IIe (TONS more from other platforms!) I'm currently building tools for Apple IIe formats

This is still a "work in progress" - but I do have a successful FUSE driver with full mounting, directory listing, meta data reporting, and file reading for ProDOS from a base Corvus disk image. It presents each volume as a folder, with that folder's contents being from its contents.

Screen shots are from a separate utility, debugging and inspecting the disk image itself, right now specifically on getting UCSD Pascal figured out. After PRGE, the plan is to get the FUSE driver and this tool merged into a single entity. Single binary used for inspecting or mounting!

And yes, the plan is to have full read/write access for UCSD Pascal, DOS 3.3, and ProDOS all in a single code base. Additionally, since the work is already done for each, add an automated detection so it can FUSE mount raw single disk images too.