Re: Backing up Larry

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

> I think ultimately it might be very rad to have a nibble copier in
> prodos that can generate a .dsk or .nib image file directly.

That's exactly what SST does. It's based on EDD, I think. You copy a
disk and "pack" it onto 2 initialised (i.e. wiped) floppy sides. Then
you use ADT to send those to a PC, and run SST inside an emulator to
"unpack" the .DSKs into a .NIB image.

The only catches are that you have to know which tracks to copy, and
possibly modify the .NIB to work in an emulator. I'm trying to find
time to work out how to handle half tracks in the case of Borg.

I now believe using the .NIB format is the best option for preserving
original disks, even if we have to patch them to use whole (instead of
half) tracks or ignore nibble counts.

Cheers,
Nick.