Re: EDD Plus Project

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

sicklittlemonkey wrote:
> On Jan 14, 4:00 am, "Charlie" <charlieD...@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
>
> > While I agree with your assessment of DSKs and NIBs, I believe that emulator
> > writers won't support a new format unless it is very easy to generate the
> > new images.  My reasoning comes from the fact that there has been such a
> > format (FDI) for some time and as yet I know of no Apple II emulator that
> > supports it.  And this even though FDIs are not all that difficult to
> > produce.
>
>
> FDI adds PC floppy drives and other complications to the equation. If
> the new format can be generated from and used in software well
> established in the Apple II community, I think it has a better chance.
> I'm talking about ADTPro and AppleWin for starters.

There is not much "wasted" in the .FDI format used to store Apple II
disk images.  PD disks have much less variation than Apple II disks.

-michael

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