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Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?



On 07/14/2012 04:04 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
On 7/14/2012 3:36 PM, Alex Freed wrote:
On 7/14/2012 7:23 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:

Ok, I see.  If you want to tinker, there is discferret:

http://www.discferret.com/wiki/DiscFerret


Thanks for the pointer - I didn't know about this project.

One question remains: for Apple floppies in particular why would you
need special hardware to read diskettes if you have an Apple and a
serial card? Provided that (all?) the interesting protected stuff has
been cracked decades ago?

If you have a disk that has not been cracked, and you don't have cracking
skills, and your disk isn't in the Computist Archive - there ya go.  (I'm in
that position right now, as it happens.)  Or - maybe you want to archive the
protection itself?

That last point is what the Kryoflux folks were aiming at: Completely faithful reproduction of the original diskettes, copy-protection and all. They started as an archival project for Amiga games.

Steve