Re: WANTED: Information on Apple II copy protection

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

In <6ehlt6$aib$2@usenet48.supernews.com> smentzer@ecom.net writes:

> 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.

Yes, .SHK support makes sense because there're so many SHK archives available
on-line. It is difficult to use them with emulation software because they are
(obviously) compressed and thus are not perfect candidates for read/write
access. That is why there's the 2IMG format.

An additional disadvantage of the SHK format is that it is much more difficult
to implement. You might add that it's well documented, but it takes time to add
support for a format whose documentation is 20 pages in size. At least compared
to a disk format that is discussed completely on half a page.
 
- henrik