Re: Nibbilized Disk Images

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Mar 14, 3:43 pm, Pat White <patp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 9:06 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
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> > "Moose" O'Malley has maintained instructions to go to and from .NIB
> > disks.  If you search inside comp.sys.apple2 for "moose sst" (without
> > the quotes) you'll get the relevant hits.  Here is the link, which is
> > unlikely to come across Google groups correctly:http://moosevalley.solidwebhost.com/download/ADT_SST_Copy_%5D%5B+_DDD...
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> > But you should understand that reconstituting .NIBs on a real Apple II
> > is a dicey affair.  You've asked about a specific solution - what
> > problem is it you're trying to solve?
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> Thank you schmidtd, the link you provided is dead, and I have sent an
> email to Moose asking them to fix the link.
> I do not have any problem to solve, I just would like to create
> some .nib disk images (and hopefully, can restore then back).

Moose's link is fine - it's Google groups that tends to mess it up.
But going back and clicking on the link I provided, it worked for me.

If you just want to create .nib images - CiderPress convert any .dsk
into a .nib for you, if just getting a .nib is your goal.  If you have
actual copy-protected software, SST is able to capture some types of
simple copy protection, but not very many of the more advanced forms.
And as Moose notes on his website recently, restoring/reconstituting
a .nib to a real disk is somewhere on the spectrum between difficult
to impossible.

If you have a Mac, Gerard Putter's Virtual II includes a modified
version of ADT called A2V2 that can capture a .nib via serial link.
The advantage there is that you only have one thing to transfer.  The
transfer is one-way only, though - A2V2 can't write the image back out
to disk.