Re: [stella] AtariVox EEPROM file format

[Paul Slocum <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I agree with you, as long as it's clear what save games you are
> manipulating from within a game.  That is, if Marble Craze AE (Atarivox
> Enhanced) lets you delete files from Man Goes Down, it needs to be
> clear that the files you are deleting are from Man Goes Down.

Games like this will use the static area.  The static area has specific 
memory addresses allocated to specific games for saving high scores etc.  I 
don't really think games should be able to touch other games' static areas.

But I guess I do agree that program should be allowed (but not required) to 
include the ability to delete any file type if the author wants 
to.  Although I think the program should be required to include the ability 
to delete its own files.

In response, to Eckhard: if we decide to use a DOS-like system with 3 
character extensions, personally I'd prefer to just sacrifice 11 bytes in 
the ROM to store the filename without splitting bits rather than sacrifice 
more bytes in ROM for code to encode/decode it.  As I think about it, I 
doubt many programs are going to need to store more than 117 bytes 
considering there are only 128 bytes in the Atari.  Most programs that use 
the file system will probably have text routines which generally require at 
least 20 bytes of temp RAM.  Plus there's stack, controller handling 
variables, generic temp variables, etc.

And also, a 2 character extension would probably be adequate.

-paul