Deckard wrote:
Further, many developments of great utility are "derived works" based on earlier software (ADTPro, for example) so this limitation is unfortunate. (BTW, I note that the excellent work of Jean Marc Boutillon also seems to be derived from Locksmith, but I may be wrong.)Locksmith Fast Copy isn't 6-2 compliant, so it can't be used as a basis for a .dsk creator tool.
Right--I thought you were reading in "scrambled" mode and converting afterward to the disk image. ;-)
Paul Guertin posted a source code one year ago in the comp.emulators.apple2 group (about "Apple Games Disassembly Project", READDAT2 -- Reads data field and denibblizes on the fly).
I remember...
Fastdsk has the same visual aspect but isn't derived from Locksmith.
I agree that the Locksmith screen display is pretty "natural" and effective (and has been used by other programs). My apologies for suggesting "derivation". -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."