Re: disk image emulator on the GS - possible?

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Christopher G. Mason" <cgm1@my-deja.com> wrote in message 
news:TVf3m.538$P5.185@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> Charlie wrote:
>> Yes, that is version 1 of the 2mg format (documented by Eric Shepherd 
>> in 1999 I believe).
>
> Its sad that I remember the 1997 Usenet exchange on 
> comp.emulators.apple2 between Josh Thompson (author of XGS) and Henrik 
> Gudat (co-author of Bernie) creating that format. Prior to that, XGS 
> and Bernie used separate proprietary formats to handle images. Revival 
> II appeared shortly after that, I actually have a copy of an early 
> release somewhere. I also have a program called FishWings, one of the 
> first programs that allowed manipulating of files in 2img images.
>
> <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.apple2/browse_thread/thread/1bd065a511739a68/5042f94b2916923>
>

Interesting thread.  That was just before I discovered emulators and for 
that matter newsgroups.  I bought my first PC in 1997.  Before that it 
was all Apple II.

By the way, I'm *very* familiar with FishWings :-)

Charlie