Re: WANTED: Information on Apple II copy protection

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smentzer@ecom.net (Steven W. Mentzer) wrote:

>There was NO sense in supporting a "SDK" or "SHK" format by the emulator, 
>since these are not really viable disk image formats (in fact, you know as 
>well as I do that SHK is really a file archive (tar/gzip), so that isn't 
>applicable to emulators anyway.

XGS does support "SDK" (why call it SDK?  Who started this?  It
is an .shk disk image and shrink it calles it .shk, so call it .shk!).

There is a utility that converts an .shk disk image (aka SDK) to the
2MG format.

>Nathan Mates wrote:
>>   But, as the emulator users seem to care more about pirating than
>>being able to use legit software, it's not surprising that they make
>>folks jump thru lots of hoops to use legit software in .SHK or .BXY
>>format, while pirated stuff is trivial. Sad, really.
>
>Ummm... wrong. Some of us prefer to develop apple IIgs software on the 
>emulator because it's much...much faster..

I have to agree with Nathan on this one.  He as a 9Mhz Zip GS.  I
once tried to work with HyperStudio under XGS -- S-L-O-W and
unstable.  Maybe IIe software development is faster on an emulator,
but GS development is not.  I hate to see how the Orca C compiler
runs under XGS, if at all.  The computer doing the emulation was
even a very powerful PC with 32MB of memory.