Re: EDD Plus Project

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> DSK and NIB are woefully inadequate for archival purposes. A new
> format is
> required and has been discussed by a few individuals. My presonal
> preference
> is to extend .2IMG so that emulator writers are encouraged to support
> it.
> Any such new format will be larger even than .NIBs unless it is
> compressed.

Nick,

While I agree with your assessment of DSKs and NIBs, I believe that emulator 
writers won't support a new format unless it is very easy to generate the 
new images.  My reasoning comes from the fact that there has been such a 
format (FDI) for some time and as yet I know of no Apple II emulator that 
supports it.  And this even though FDIs are not all that difficult to 
produce.
It's that "chicken and egg" thing.  No one wants to create images if they 
can't be used anywhere and no one wants to support a format that doesn't 
have any images available.

Charlie