MagiC multitasking OS and HDDRIVER

[uweseimet]

You may already know that the fast MagiC operating system has been open-sourced. Time to point out that HDDRIVER in combination with MagiC for the Atari offers some unique features:

- Background DMA: ACSI and SCSI transfers can run in the background, so that applications are not unneccessarily blocked during a data transfer. This improves overall responsiveness because applications get CPU time during a transfer.
- 26 drives/partitions (A:-Z:) instead of only 16.
- Up to 1 GB partition size with TOS compatible FAT16 partitions for any Atari. Note that the boot partition's size is still limited by the TOS version you are running, because TOS must be able to boot MagiC from it.
- FAT32 partitions with long filenames and almost no size limit. When partitioning, HDDRUTIL automatically creates FAT32 partitions for partitions > 1 GiB.

HDDRIVER and HDDRUTIL are also aware of other MagiC features, e.g. MagiC's comprehensive multi-tasking capabilities.

[uweseimet]

Now that there are new releases of MagiC for the Atari, I have tested whether HDDRIVER still works with MagiC as expected. Everything appears to be fine: Just like with old releases, with HDDRIVER and MagiC you profit from background transfers, big FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, and 26 drives (A:-Z:).