On 12 ao�t, 02:40, Nick Westgate <nick.westg...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 12, 5:35 am, Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
Third project of Brutal Deluxe during the summer holidays for the
Apple IIs: EDD/SST and NIB images.
Fantastic news! Question: How long are your holidays!? ;-)
Too short ;-) I have worked on a huge business project which prevented
me from taking holidays before, so I have had a lot of days to
take ;-)
The options:
- Use a similar NIB format as SST.
It would be nice to have this.
Jean-Marc Boutillon told me that SST creates two disks of a complete
diskette and that Ciderpress removes 512 bytes of each track when it
gathers the two images in one NIB file. That is quite weird!
I have to admit I dislike that idea in the sense that we would lose
the 1/2 or 1/4 track options and limit to (the vast majority of) 16-
sec disks. Spiralling disks or some 18-sec disks may not work.
Actually the 1/2 _or_ 1/4 tracks could be kept by storing them
instead of the adjacents whole (or other 1/2 or 1/4) tracks.
This is sufficient for non spiralling disks, and in fact 1/2 track
disks like that would currently work in AppleWin.
That is correct, the head of our drives is not so precise ;-) Jean-
Pierre Lagrange, the world-famous cracking champion, told me that A2's
real hardware would not read a spiralling on the whole disk.
For your new NIB format, it would be nice to be able to include
only needed tracks and specify this with a track (bit)map.
Of course, this editing (removal of unneeded tracks) to create a
"sparse track image" could be done at a later time.
I like that idea.