Re: Apple ][c Questions

[dmitton@mulberry.com (Douglas E. Mitton)]

My kids still play 5.25" games on my //c, and they are fairly "rough"
on them.  The way I back them up is to make Shrinkit(?) Disk Images of
them and store the image file on 3.5" or hard drive.  I find I can
generally get 8-10 images on a 3.5" backup disk.

Note that this doesn't work with copy protected disks.  I seem to have
only 2 games I can't remove the copy protection on to back them up ...
JET and Donkey Kong ... the kids are playing with the originals ... I
cringe each time!!!     :-)

mjmahon@aol.com (MJMahon) wrote:

>David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:

><snip, snip>

>> In most cases, I've found that disks I've double notched in this manner
>> have been less reliable than ones with which I only used one side.  This
>> may vary between brands.
>>
>> My rule was (I don't use 5.25" disks any more): if I want to keep it,
>> use one side only, or make sure I have a backup on such a disk.  For
>> day-to-day stuff that can be lost, a double-notched disk is OK.

>Or, if the disk is _precisely_ a backup, which is very seldom used
>by definition.

>There is no need to fear "gunk" on the disk if you are relatively tidy.
>I have never had a double-notched disk fail...  Come to think of it,
>except for mechanical or magnetic damage (including writing trash
>on it), I've never had _any_ of hundreds of 5.25" disks fail!  ;-)
>If they write and verify on a good drive, I've never found one to
>"lose data" as a result of some invisible phenomenon.

>Like David, I find I don't use them much anymore.

>-michael         "Obsolete power corrupts obsoletely!"   ;-]



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   Doug Mitton 
    * In Brockville, Ontario, Canada
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