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Halftrack/Nibble Sending now possible
- Subject: Halftrack/Nibble Sending now possible
- From: ogydgian@yahoo.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:23:47 -0700
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I believe this might be a first for the Apple 2 community, but it's
now possible to archive Apple II disks which contain half-tracks using
the Virtual ][ emulator. ADT was updated to support nibble sends and
then half-tracking. Virtual ][ stores the data in .v2d format which is
based on the D5NI format used by one of the first Apple II emulators
for the Mac, "Stop The Madness."
Virtual ][ runs on OS X (sorry PC guys) and the ADT .dsk and source
are part of the Virtual ][ download package. I don't have any native
half-track disks myself, but I used Nibbles Away ][ to create some
test disks with data on half-tracks and the data transferred
perfectly.
Hopefully other Apple II emulators will pick up this format and more
wonderful Apple II programs will be preserved for future posterity.
You can get Virtual ][ here:
http://www.virtualii.com/
Galael