Re: Admin status of the asimov archive?

[tom <tombaker17@gmail.com>]

On Jun 17, 3:23 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> > Since it's in unsorted, we can look at it.  I unpacked it and found
> > that disk 2 is the wrong size - it's too big for a disk image (145,400
> > as opposed to 143,360 bytes).  Booting "side 1" asks for "side 2," and
> > if I truncate it to 143,360 bytes, it doesn't work.
>
> The "Giant_World_Side_B.dsk" image is pretty messed up.  The beginning
> of it is definitely not a disk image, and the last few "tracks" are
> actually a nibble image, not bytes.  In between, there is clearly some
> recognizable data, but there's also a "giantb.dsk"--which almost
> certainly is unrelated to the original disk image.
>
> Looks like a do-over is called for.
>
> -michael

I'll take a look at it.

They do run extremely well (if no transmission corruptions) with the
AppleWin emulator.

giantb.dsk is the name the dsk usually has.  I gave it the longer name
so it would not get lost in all of asimov's listings, but, by
alphabetical order, stay with the documentation, etc.

It is possible this was a disk image generated with the 2inaPC
emulator's data transfer program -- that always added a prologue (I -
think- it was a prologue) that increased the DSK's size.

Thanks for the comments.  Say, you aren't suggesting that the A.S.M.
is not needed, are you?

tom