Re: EDD Plus Project

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Henry S. Courbis wrote:
> Hello Michael.
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> > Henry, there have been a couple of *very* long threads on the topic of
> > 1) capturing all the relevant data on an Apple II disk and 2) re-writing
> > that data on another Apple II disk.
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> So I've seen over the years.
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> > The problems become much more difficult as you attempt to handle almost
> > all protected disks and/or later protected disks.
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> I agree.  Not having any experiance with the EDD software I was hoping 
> someone to help point out any pitfalls or areas that would need to be 
> addressed.  Even if it only worked with 60% of the software out there to 
> start with, then releasing the source code and allowing people to experiment 
> with new ways to possible close in the gap.  Maybe in the end it will be 
> come more like Copy II+ where you just select the title and it eneters the 
> pererameters for you.  I don't know exactly where this is going just yet.

That only happens because *someone* determined which parameters worked
for (at least some version of) that software title.

That is, of course, a natural "open source" kind of growing body of
data, but once someone has reverse-engineered the protection, then
that title can be archived with protection intact.

How many times does each title need to be separately archived?

Isn't sharing the archives (and the data) a more inclusive goal than
just sharing the parameters for creating the archive?

If I know that someone has created an archive of the ABCD game disk that
I have, then I no longer need to worry about archiving it myself.

The archiving project should be organized to avoid duplicated effort
in order to achieve better coverage.

> > The upshot is that a much larger, more "capable" image format (perhaps
> > .FDI) is needed to capture the required information.
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> I agree.  .2IMG really needs to be looked at.  I have a feeling this will be 
> the direction we'll be going rather then trying to create another format or 
> use .NIB.

I wasn't aware that .2mg was even remotely capable of representing the
kinds of data we were discussing.

-michael

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