this will be much slower, since it needs to do address translation and simulate I/O at the block level. but it should run everything except the stuff that is really linked to hardware, like disk formatting.
but even that could be simulated with enough effort. specifically, the hard one would be
the djdma, which formats by downloading z80 code to execute directly on the disk controller.
to do that, I'd need to figure out behaviorally what the downloaded code does and then translate that into changes in the disk image.
this will be much slower, since it needs to do address translation and simulate I/O at the block level. but it should run everything except the stuff that is really linked to hardware, like disk formatting.
but even that could be simulated with enough effort. specifically, the hard one would be
the djdma, which formats by downloading z80 code to execute directly on the disk controller.
to do that, I'd need to figure out behaviorally what the downloaded code does and then translate that into changes in the disk image.