Re: How do you turn a .NIB image back into a real disk?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Linards Ticmanis writes ...
> 
> res069fl wrote:
> >
> > I use ADT to transfer disk images back and forth between PC and Apple II.
> > I have no problem writing a .DSK image back to a real 5.25 disk but I'm
> > stuck with these .NIB images.  How do you do it with copy protected
> > images?
> 
> It's a rather convoluted process. Use "Saltine's Super Transcopy"
> (SST), which should be in the GSWorldView Archives (see FAQ) to turn
> one protected disk into two normal disks, on an emulator that can
> write to .nib images, like AppleWIN. Then you transfer these disks,
> and then rebuild the protected one with SST on the real Apple. Or the
> other way around, if transferring from Apple to PC.
> 
 ....

     Think that's pretty much it for .nib files created from for-real copy
protected disks.

     For genuinely copy protected .nib's, there is always a chance that someone
will employ the debugging capabilities built into emulators to crack the
protection.

     The good news about .nib's is that many are not really images of copy
protected disks-- i.e. they are mainly images which need to preserve special
volume numbering. These can be copied to .dsk, transferred to an Apple II, and
placed on diskettes formatted for the correct volume number.



Rubywand