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Re: EDD Plus Project

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message 
news:4791945a$0$36333$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> Charlie <charlieDOTd@vereyezon.net> wrote:
>> I'm glad to hear that.  Incidentally, my advocacy of FDI (the file format
>> not the disk2fdi setup) may be unfounded (I have no way of testing it) or 
>> it
>> may be impossible or too hard to implement on an Apple ][.  I would just
>> like you and other authors to take a hard look at it before coming to a
>> decision.
>
> My impression of the FDI format for Apple II floppies, based on 
> integrating
> support for it into CiderPress: works best as read-only.  Treating it as
> read/write would be a royal pain.  Best to convert it into an "augmented
> nibble" format, the likes of which have been discussed here before.
>

Andy,

I'm beginning to see this as a good compromise.  I still hate the idea of 
another format but maybe that's the only way to get this thing done.  You 
would be the best candidate to write an fdi to "new augmented nibble" format 
conversion program ;-)

Charlie