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Re: Where can I find ASIMOV2, the .2MG -> disk converter for GS?



Alex Lee <alelee@mac.com> wrote:

>On 2008-05-11 17:37:30 +1000, "Polymorph" 
><polymorph@a2central.com.remove-e90-this> said:
>
>>   To: limtc
>> limtc wrote:
>>> Is this a Mac, PC or GS application?
>> 
>> It is a GS application that writes .dsk images back to real 5.25"
>> floppies. I don't think it works with any other kind of image (i.e. it
>> won't work with 3.5" floppy images, or hard disk images). If I am wrong
>> about this, I'm sure someone will correct me.  :-)
>> 
>> I've never used it so I can't comment any further.
>
>Now I can't remember for sure. I know what Asimov DEFINITELY does is 
>that it can convert 800k 2images to real double density 3.5" disks and 
>back again. Not sure about support for .dsk and 5.25".

    Actually it supports ALL storage types (e.g. 3.5 and 5.25 floppies,
hardisks, RAM Disk, even non-ProDOS/DOS volumes). And it works
in both directions, creating disk images and re-creating the real disk.

    Rather than say more, here's a review I wrote for A2Central  back 
8 years ago explaining everything it does and where to find it:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010702232230/http://www.a2central.com/reviews/asimov/index.html

Mitchell Spector