Use real hardware floppy

[Haggenti]

It would be awesome : using real floppy as the drawbridge project does with winuae for amiga.
Actually we are able to write DSK file to real floppy with dsktools.

But no emulator can use it. We are forced to "mount" a dsk image...

Thank you !

[ColinPitrat]

This sounds like a fun idea but:

• I don't have access to such hardware so testing it will be problematic for me
• thinking a bit more about it, I'm actually not sure this is a good idea from a user perspective. Using such a functionality would mean repeatedly using the hardware and the real floppy disks for reading the games, wearing both of them. It seems to me that dumping the dsk once using this hardware and then playing from the dsk is much better for the user as it preserves the life of the hardware.

I may be missing some big advantage of relying on the hardware (or some big drawback of the dsk images). If so, please tell me.

Implementing such support shouldn't be super hard considering dsktools has some C code doing just that licensed under GPL. Actually, part of this code comes from Caprice in the first place so it should be very easy to reuse it.