Re: Hardware musings

["Justin England" <justin@rapidcity.net>]

"mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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>> But, again, any disk image buffering scheme rules out some of the
>> most interesting (copy protected) disks.
>>
>> If the only thing it could handle was unprotected disks, then we already
>> have many ways of deailing with them.  It seems like a lot of work just
>> to achieve "yet another" way of getting unprotected disks to a PC.
>
> Agreed. I can see the appeal though - especially for those who don't
> have hard disks or other storage on their Apple II's. It offers the
> promise of a quick and seamless approach, especially if the device had
> Ciderpress integration.
>
> The path of least resistance for transferring copy protected images is
> probably to design a file format capable of it, then hack/modify Copy
> II plus to allow image creation.
>


Since the A2 is perfectly capable of creating images of copy protected disk 
(if the protection scheme is known), than it should be the tool used for 
creating images.  I want something to create real disks.  Right before I 
moved I remember using CiderPress to look at some of the disks that I had 
copied to my server, and found that it was an excellent tool for managing 
images on my PC.  CiderPress also makes it easy to manage images (or any 
apple archive for that matter) that I have downloaded from the internet.  My 
desire is to have a way to create real disks from my PC.

Justin