Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, sicklittlemonkey wrote:There were good excuses back in the day to make sacrifices to get something COPYAble. But now, with .nib we can preserve things much better. In fact I might play with extending 2img for a better .nib format.I've been thinking whether it might be desirable to create a ".dii" format that supports half-tracks and everything a disk ][ is capable of.I need to learn how to crack and practice cracking just to brush up on my 6502 skills, while I try to write FUT and clone Atari Adventure. :/
To capture _all_ that might be needed to reproduce the behavior of a disk in an Apple drive, you will need more than half tracks--including quarter tracks, "weak" bits, "bit stuffing", synced tracks, etc. There is already a format defined that can support all this: FDI. It was defined for the Amiga, but it apparently will cover the Apple II quite nicely. Check for it on the DISK2FDI site. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."