Re: inside .nib?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Enrico Colombini writes ...
> 
> Does anybody know where one can find detailed technical specifications
> of the .nib format used by emulators?
> 
> I know what nibbles are (I wrote a couple of copy protection systems
> aeons ago) and I am thinking about the possibility of writing a tool
> similar to SST but easier to use, to recover old copy-protected 5.25"
> disks.
> 
 ....


     SST (Saltine's Super Transcopy) could be somewhat more user-friendly for
.nib creation. For instance, on Apple II's with the disk space and/or memory
to hold the total nibble-ized content of a diskette, you would not need to go
through the step of writing to two sides of a 5.25" diskette.

     Similarly, for .nib --> diskette conversions, SST could be made a good
deal more friendly running on larger Apple II's. This would make the .nib
format much more useful for archiving. (In fact, there is just so much old
protected software which can usefully be placed in .nib form. Since a lot of
it is already in .nib form, the most valuable SST upgrade would, probably, be
this one-- i.e. an easier way to go from .nib to diskette on real Apple
II's.) 



Rubywand