C64x promotes piracy.

[spirantho]

To put this in perspective: You CAN'T use real Amiga floppy disks on the AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Aros or the FPGA based solutions either. Piracy is the only solution there as well

I know this has already been corrected, but - speaking as the person who wrote the part of the driver needed for original copy-protected disks - that's not true at all. I have several Amiga games installed on my A1 using WHDLoad and MorphOS should be able to do it too as I ported the driver to MorphOS (though they require a bit more work and Frank Wille is helping there). On AROS you can install some protected disks too from within JanusUAE.

On a C64x, though there's nowhere to plug a Catweasel, hence the difference.

[spirantho]

that's a good question. in truth i only use it for transferring old amiga disks to my local hard disks or transferring old files for use in dosbox. i know you can mount the disks just fine, but whether or not you can point VICE to the mountpoint as a 'disk' i do not know.

The answer is yes - kind of.

The CBM0: mountlist works sufficiently - I've had some trouble writing to it from memory, but I think reading is ok. You can therefore mount CBM0: and point VICE to CBM0: as a filesystem, I think, but I've not done it for a while.

Every now and again I feel like trying to get Vice to use the Catweasel for direct drive access - in theory it should be possible as I believe (unlike UAE) there's a cycle-exact version of Vice, and with the MkIV hardware you can make it fire off an interrupt when the signal changes, I think.

In other words, I think it's possible, but I just don't have the time given 99% of games you can just get cracked versions of anyway which you can image. Maybe one day - it would be cool.