Re: .nib Images to real Apple disks

[AppleCPM <a2@wilserv.com>]

Hi!
Hi!

On Apr 9, 2:17 pm, Michael wrote:
> Willi, Antoine was asking what the name of the *disk* was, not the
> name of a (nonexistent) program to convert .nib's to disks.

    The image file that I want to convert to a real disk is
"FORT2.NIB".  The funny thing is that this image file is one I created
using SST and uploaded to Asimov a loooong time ago.  Now, I can't
find the original disk.

> Is there some reason that you want to preserve the non-standard format?
> It would probably be fairly easy to modify the disks DOS (which Antoine
> was asking about) to accept standard formatting, resulting in an easily
> archivable and copyable disk.

    The non-standard format is required by the Fortran compiler.
That's how they implemented copy-protection.

> If the .nib is usable, then such a deprotection should be doable.  If it
> is not, then it is almost certain that the .nib does not contain enough
> info to create a usable disk.

    The '.NIB' image file IS usable.  The file format is UCSD Pascal
and the Fortran compiler is interpreted UCSD Pascal P-code.
Deprotecting it would be an interesting challenge.

> It is also not too difficult to create a disk with non-standard format,
> though the motivation for doing so is hard to fathom.  ;-)

    "hard to fathom"?  All I want is a disk that is a duplicate of the
one I can't find.

Willi