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Re: NIB and DSK questions

On 2/8/2012 12:40 PM, Egan Ford wrote:

On 2/8/12 8:01 AM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:


On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Egan Ford wrote:


I have ~100 I would like to convert.


I can stitch you small CLI tool for NIB -> DSK from my code.


I would like to keep this a fully automated process for future
virtualapple.org DB updates, so for now, .nib remains elusive. And
given the feedback in this thread, may remain elusive.


The tool is easy. The result, though - probably elusive. If it's NIB
it's most likely kind of protected and/or not 16-sector. Both won't
convert to DSK. The remaining .NIBs that are unprotected 16-sector must
be very few, if existing at all.


I wanted to avoid this, but perhaps I need to create a nibble writer. Is
there any Apple ASM code floating around that I can look at?
Also elusive. :-) SST is out there. I was working with Gerard Putter a couple of years ago to get .nib writing going inside the DOS ADT/A2V2 client (before grafting it onto ADTPro). The results worked after a fashion, but it just wasn't deterministic enough to be reliable.