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Re: EDD Plus Project



Charlie <charlieDOTd@vereyezon.net> wrote:
> I'm glad to hear that.  Incidentally, my advocacy of FDI (the file format 
> not the disk2fdi setup) may be unfounded (I have no way of testing it) or it 
> may be impossible or too hard to implement on an Apple ][.  I would just 
> like you and other authors to take a hard look at it before coming to a 
> decision.

My impression of the FDI format for Apple II floppies, based on integrating
support for it into CiderPress: works best as read-only.  Treating it as
read/write would be a royal pain.  Best to convert it into an "augmented
nibble" format, the likes of which have been discussed here before.

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