Re: .NiB to disk

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Mark Percival" <mark@syndicomm.com> wrote in message
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: Bill Garber wrote:
:
: >CiderPress will open an NIB, and you can make a new DSK image,
: >then copy and paste the files into it.  Should be able to handle it.  :o)
:
: Might work, might not.  It depends upon why the original image is in .nib
: to begin with.  A .dsk image contains only the decoded sector data for each
: track.  A .nib contains the entire track data including headers, trailers
: and the encoded sector data.  Some copy protected software messed with the
: raw data so that making a .dsk images out of it won't be easily possible.

I've had very few NIB images to test the theory on,
so I don't know for sure, but the ones I have tried
on it worked ok. Do you have any I can try it out
on?  I'd like to know if it can be done.

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