SST Project (was: EDD Plus Project)

["Deckard" <deckard@a2central.com.remove-2kv-this>]

Henry S. Courbis a.t. wrote:

> Can't wait to see what you come up with,
> and I'm sure I am not alone in this.

Okay, I'll see if you're right or not!



Jonno, Shaun, Jerry and I released the full EDD IV documentation last year. 
And I've been working alone on the SST source code since few months when I 
have free time for that.

I'm going to have a baby in 2 months and I'd like to finish this project 
before the arrival of my little "Paul".

=> So, who wants to contribute to my project: THE FULL MERLIN 8 SOURCE CODE OF
SST?? (*)

My goal is to offer it to the apple II community (so it isn't a closed source 
code for commercial purpose).
If somebody wants to participate, I'll publish my current "work in progress" 
on my website.

This includes:
- the memory map of the program (with relocator informations, memory blocks 
switches, ...)
- EDD source code (sourceror)
- SST source code (Saltine's patches). I've done a large part of the 
retro-engineering job (commented sources code).
- The differences between Saltine's version and mine.

TO DO:

- carefully replace the labels produced by sourceror with the official EDD 
labels written in the PDF.
I've done the job for few modules and cross-modules labels are now correct. 


JM



(*) Why to do that?
Well, just read the following messages and you'll understand...

About SST:

**********

Andy McFadden wrote:

...
> Each disk side turns into two, which are then transferred
> like any other unprotected disk (e.g. with ADT over a serial
> cable, or if you have the hardware, with ShrinkIt and 
> AppleTalk). 
> The two images are then recombined by running SST in an 
> emulator or <shameless plug> with CiderPress. 
>
> It's a slow and somewhat painful process...


*****

Rubywand wrote:

...
> Unfortunately, Saltine's Super Transcopy (SST) was designed to
> transfer copy-protected disks using just 5.25" media.
> It was not designed to create .nib files you could store on 
> 800k diskettes or hard disk. So, creating a .nib with SST 
> involves a transfer and combining process such as described by Andy.
...

*****

Ed Eastman wrote:

...
> SST is a cool program... Essentially it uses the EDD source code
> to read a track and analyse it to find start and arbitrarily 
> end it at a fixed length. 
>
> There is no reason that someone couldn't write a Q&D program 
> to do that without the transfer stage.
...

*****

So, the full source code is required...
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