Re: Disk Description Language Proposal

[Marc S Ressl <mressl@macgui.com>]

Hello there,

thanks for the comments and ideas!

RP9 is indeed a nice idea for Apple II emulators. It contains one or several
disk images and artwork.

So, an RP9 file could contain a DDL file, and provide support for
copy-protected disk images :-).

BTW, we are close to a final DDL 1.0 spec:

http://openemulator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/Formats/DDL%20Format%201.0.txt

With the best wishes,

Marc.-

Payton Byrd wrote:
> All of this is fine and dandy, but what is missing is metadata.  In
> emulators, the most common use case for these files, there are disk swap
> lists, etc in play.  These lists need to reside somewhere and I know in
> the
> CBM world they are an absolute PITA to deal with.
> 
> Cloanto, the people behind C64 Forever and Amiga Forever have a format
> called RP9 that describes not only the disks of an archive, but the
> context
> in which they are used, such as machine configurations, swap lists, etc. 
> To me, getting RP9 accepted as a standard would be WAY more valuable than
> converting millions of disk images across multiple platforms into a single
> XML format.