Re: IIe .dsk, .do, .po, .nib images

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Apr 17, 1:49 am, sund...@nwrain.net wrote:
> That is a lot of info.  Thanks for taking the time to provide it.
Sure.  You asked a very open-ended question, so it needed an open-
ended answer. :-)

> I haven't totaly researched all of the options you provided yet but it
> looks like Asimov will do the job.  Asimov in its documentation said
> it will not work with Bernie ][ the Rescue or Sweet 16
Hmmm.  I wonder why not?  But then that's not the direction you said
you wanted to go - your question was about taking real floppies and
making images of them.  So you'd be running Asimov on the real
hardware.

> but I also have a IIGS and a CF card.
Ok, then that's probably where you want to be making your images.

> I have ImageMaker for the IIGS which will make .2mg images but I
> was interested in making .dsk images etc. out of my IIe 5.25 disks.
> I can transfer the image to the mac after it is made.
>
> Asimov mentioned it does not support .nib image conversion.  What
> is the best program to make a .nib image of a 5.25 disk.
I only know of Saltine's Super Transcopy (SST:
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Docs/SaltinesSuperTranscopyDocs.txt).
But .nib images are only slightly better than .dsk at transporting
some limited forms of copy protection.  Is there some particular
reason you want to go for .nib?

> As I have said I have not tried all of the options you mentioned.
> Does
> ADTPro actually make the image too or is this only used to transfer.
It transports the data to the host computer which actually builds the
image file.  That way you don't need a mass storage device on the
Apple end.

> My monitor on my original IIe doesn't work so I am using an LCIII with
> a IIe card.  This might be a better solution if I can transfer the
> 5.25 disk
> to the proper image on the IIe and save it to disk without
> transferring it.
> Then I can put it on a Mac disk.
Why not just hook your IIe up to a TV or VCR with the video connector?

> But that leads me back to what prgram will work on the IIe to make
> .nib images of my 5.25 disk.  I can transfer the image to the Mac if
> I get the 5.25 disk saved to the proper image.
SST.  But again, why .nib?