Re: EDD Plus Project

["Henry S. Courbis" <apl2research(a.t.)comcast.net>]

Hello Michael.

> Henry, there have been a couple of *very* long threads on the topic of
> 1) capturing all the relevant data on an Apple II disk and 2) re-writing
> that data on another Apple II disk.

So I've seen over the years.


> The problems become much more difficult as you attempt to handle almost
> all protected disks and/or later protected disks.

I agree.  Not having any experiance with the EDD software I was hoping 
someone to help point out any pitfalls or areas that would need to be 
addressed.  Even if it only worked with 60% of the software out there to 
start with, then releasing the source code and allowing people to experiment 
with new ways to possible close in the gap.  Maybe in the end it will be 
come more like Copy II+ where you just select the title and it eneters the 
pererameters for you.  I don't know exactly where this is going just yet.


> The upshot is that a much larger, more "capable" image format (perhaps
> .FDI) is needed to capture the required information.

I agree.  .2IMG really needs to be looked at.  I have a feeling this will be 
the direction we'll be going rather then trying to create another format or 
use .NIB.

Now I'll have to do a bit of research unless someone know off the top of 
their head - Does Disk Maker and ADT support .2IMG?  It's been a while since 
I've used either and forgot.

Thanks to everyone for all the help and suggestions so far!


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