Re: Admin status of the asimov archive?

[tom <tombaker17@gmail.com>]

On Jun 19, 1:45 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> tom wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 3:23 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> >>> Since it's in unsorted, we can look at it.  I unpacked it and found
> >>> that disk 2 is the wrong size - it's too big for a disk image (145,400
> >>> as opposed to 143,360 bytes).  Booting "side 1" asks for "side 2," and
> >>> if I truncate it to 143,360 bytes, it doesn't work.
> >> The "Giant_World_Side_B.dsk" image is pretty messed up.  The beginning
> >> of it is definitely not a disk image, and the last few "tracks" are
> >> actually a nibble image, not bytes.  In between, there is clearly some
> >> recognizable data, but there's also a "giantb.dsk"--which almost
> >> certainly is unrelated to the original disk image.
>
> >> Looks like a do-over is called for.
>
> >> -michael
>
> > I'll take a look at it.
>
> > They do run extremely well (if no transmission corruptions) with the
> > AppleWin emulator.
>
> > giantb.dsk is the name the dsk usually has.  I gave it the longer name
> > so it would not get lost in all of asimov's listings, but, by
> > alphabetical order, stay with the documentation, etc.
>
> > It is possible this was a disk image generated with the 2inaPC
> > emulator's data transfer program -- that always added a prologue (I -
> > think- it was a prologue) that increased the DSK's size.
>
> If you have an image that runs correctly, just re-zip it and reupload.
> That should put it right.
>
> -michael
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Appreciate the help very much.  Perhaps this weekend, if it is that
simple.

Interesting how even a "wierd" image is running okay.  One of the
features of AppleWin is that it is not fazed by ProDOS ordering versus
DOS ordering in its disk images -- if you give it the wrong one, it
just switches over.  Perhaps the AppleWin emulator is really very
versatile in accessing disk images, even overlooking the 2inaPC
prologue that is apparently there.

-tom