Suggested change to add volume numbering to .dsk disk image files

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

     A long-standing problem is the failure of .dsk disk image format to
preserve volume number for DOS 3.3 disks-- i.e. disks which run under DOS 3.3
or some variant. As a result, quite a few games and other pieces of software
which use special volume numbering for disk identification will not run
correctly from .dsk.

     Instead of changing the format of .dsk file content, perhaps emu writers
could adopt a file naming convention which allows specifying volume number. A
letter-number code just before the ".dsk" suffix could specify volume number.

     For example "VV238" in the file name NARFGAMEVV238.dsk would tell the
emulator that the NARFGAME disk has Volume Number 238.



Rubywand