Support for macFUSE?

[dirkwhoffmann]

I just ran the macFUSE demo apps by @bfleischer on my Mac (Benjamin, thanks for the help!).

As a potential enhancement of vAmiga, macFUSE could be integrated to easily transfer files in and out. As a first step, vAmiga could use macFUSE to offer mount points like Volumes/amiga, providing access to the file system currently imported in the file system navigator (part of RetroShell).

In a later phase, vAmiga could provide mount points such as Volumes/df0 that automatically sync files between the Mac and the Amiga. Just thinking out loud here... every idea is welcome.

[dirkwhoffmann]

Hacking together a small prototype turned out to be easy and promising. The next step is to establish a proper class architecture, guided by two goals.

• I want a flexible design that allows me to support a wide range of entities, such as ADFs and HDFs, as well as vAmiga’s internal objects like the internal floppy disk or hard drive.
• I want to reuse as much of the existing vAmiga codebase as possible. The bad: Achieving this will require substantial changes inside vAmiga itself.

The following class diagram is essentially a dump of my brain in its current state:

In a nutshell, BlockDevice will be the central hub that allows me to mount a FUSE file system on top of nearly everything.

[dirkwhoffmann]

Since I’ve already started swinging a fairly large wrecking ball through the vAmiga codebase, my plan is to generalize a bit further. As a first step, I want vAmiga and VirtualC64 to share exactly the same device and disk code. This would enable the (still hypothetical) FUSE app to mount D64 images out of the box: