Re: EDD Plus Project

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

Charlie,

> 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.

    Please tell me more.  What do FDI stand for?  Is it advanced than NIB 
format?  I have been studying Disk II controller and I want to emulate it 
using Logic Sequencer ROM instead of basic DSK format and NIB format.
    I intend to write it near the future.  I am interested.

Bryan Parkoff