Re: Ultima Apple Emulation

[sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

<snipped useful summary from Antoine>

On Feb 1, 8:09 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> In any case, if a format were developed that was only, say, twice
> the size of a typical .dsk or .nib image, but that supported, say,
> 99% of the desirable programs, that would be a fine tradeoff.

You don't even have to double the size of NIBs that use half tracks.
Because adjacent tracks cannot be written (using the Apple II at
least) we can just round down to a whole track. Actually AppleWin
already does this. (Shh! ;-)

If we add track length and track sync that should be 99%, no?

Cheers,
Nick.