Re: IIe .dsk, .do, .po, .nib images

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-yk8-this>]

  To: hatespam
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:12:08 +0000, hatespam wrote:

> sundown@nwrain.net wrote:
> 
>>I have ImageMaker for the IIGS which will make .2mg images but I
>>was interested in making .dsk images etc. out of my IIe 5.25 disks.
>>I can transfer the image to the mac after it is made.
> 
> I think ImageMaker can make .dsk images as well as .2mg, if not I bet
> we can convince Sheppy to add that feature. 

Sheppy's ImageMaker only supports 2IMG, DiskCopy 4.2, DiskCopy 6 and Raw
formats.  The Raw format is apparently identical to the DiskCopy 6
format but if you check the "Add Mac Type Info" checkbox they will get
different Mac filetypes.

I would guess that Raw would be ProDOS order so any image created with
it could be given a .po extension.

> Otherwise, just use CiderPress to do a bulk image convert.

If you needed DOS 3.3 order (.do) then you could indeed use CiderPress
to convert the image(s).

By the way, one of the reasons that the Universal Disk Image format
(2IMG) was created was to avoid the problem of .dsk files not having any
header and therefore not letting you know whether the image is DOS 3.3
order or ProDOS order.  Either order is perfectly valid in a file with a
.dsk extension.
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