Re: Using 1.2M floppy disks

[ctkwan@csd.hku.hk (Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~})]

David R. Villegas (mnementh@netcom.com) wrote:

: For games, you can remove the copy protection, make a Shrinkit disk archive
: of the deprotected games, and save the archive on a 3.5" floppy or any other
No all games can be deprotected and make it "COPYA" copiable. Most do, however.
There is no problem of preserving the games. I can store them on a Unix
machine's hard disk or on a CD-ROM. 

: form of storage medium.  When your 5.25" floppies die, if a better Apple
: emulator doesn't exist, you can unpack the archive back to a 5.25" floppy.
The problem is that 10 years later I may not be able to buy new 5.25" floppy 
disks onto which I can unpack games archived eventhough I may still
have the games on MO disks and an working apple. For games which use RWTS 
only but not DOS 3.3, I might be able to convert them to read from a 3.5". 
All I need to do is to write an replacement for RWTS which uses a 3.5" 
floppy as a 5.25" floppy. It is quite beyond me to convert trivially some 
games which use extra-ordinary disk formats like spiral track, for example. 
It needs to be done game by game and is not always possible.

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Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~}
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong