I have low energy today, so I poked #farged and made a little progress.

The display is currently a list of 'files' with length and type. I wrote a 'Use' button that deletes some and writes some.

Which meant writing a 'find me a space for this file' function (naively from the start), and a 'delete file' function.

All the 'file system' metadata is in the app, not on the disk. That might change later, but for now it's fine.

Currently, the files cannot be fragmented, but that'll come very soon.

I'm wondering whether to go all-in on a silly little coding adventure: a defrag simulator.

Some people find these satisfying to watch.

I can see a way for it to start simple, but then grow subtleties. Its current direction is targeting 16-bit and 32-bit look and feel, like Amiga fast defraggers.

It uses colours now, but I want to make it more accessible.

I also want to make it open source, when I won't be embarrassed by the code.

#retrocomputing #retro #farged #storage #16bit #amiga #foss