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Re: Admin status of the asimov archive?

schmidtd wrote:

On Jun 16, 9:27 pm, tom <tombake...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 16, 7:50 pm, Nick Westgate <nick.westg...@gmail.com> wrote:




Yes, unfortunately the instructions are hidden in here:ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/asm/asm-template.txt

Very, very silly of me!  Why didn't I think that ASM stood for 'Apple
Software Map' and not 'assembler'?   *8D

Thanks very much for the pointer.  Otherwise the zip file would have
sat in the 'unsorted' directory for a very long time.

tom


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

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