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#### 6.11.1 Settings for file system devices

These settings deal with the drive-like peripherals connected to the bus of the emulated machine. The first setting relates to the parallel IEEE488 interface. With this interface a special engine is used to listen to the bus lines to translates them to the filesystem code. Thus the PET will always detect a drive for example, but it can also use drives 10 and 11 even together with true disk drive emulation.

- “Enable virtual devices”, enables the peripheral access via the fast disk emulation (either kernal traps or IEEE488 interface). Both, filesystem and disk image access via fast drive emulation, are affected.

Four peripherals, numbered from 8 to 11, are accessible; each of them provides the following settings:

- “File system access”, if enabled, allows the device to emulate a drive accessing a file system directory; note that when a disk image is attached to the same drive, the directory is no longer visible and the attached disk is used instead.
- “File system directory” specifies the directory to be accessed by the drive.
- “Convert P00 file names”, if enabled, allows access to P00 files using their built-in name instead of the Unix one.
- “Create P00 files on save”, if enabled, creates P00 files (instead of raw CBM files) whenever a program creates a file.

Note that, by default, all drives create P00 files on save.