Re: Data Preservation

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message 1162833044.165019.108000@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com">news:1162833044.165019.108000@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
: Oldbitcollector wrote:
: > I have acquired a large library of 5.25 Apple ][ disks as well
: > ProDOS/3.3 as well as a few hundred 3.5's for the ][ and ][gs.   Has
: > someone developed an intelligent method of backing up disks to a more
: > modern format for the purpose of preservation?
:
: Sure; that's what the .dsk, .po, .nib and .2mg file formats are all
: about.  Emulators happily run with these as virtual disks (floppy and
: hard).  Lots of options exist for creating the virtual images in the
: first place: Diskmaker, DSK2FILE, Asimov, SST, etc. See:
: http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html#006

DiskMaker only makes disks from images.

: > Also, is there a method of moving 2IMG files back to the GS?
: > I've looked at ADT, but it looks a little short of the mark.
:
: ADTPro can move 2IMG files back to the GS, but ADT will only move 140k
: 5-1/4" images.  As others have suggested, if you have the hardware (a
: 68k Mac) or other communications methods then it's an easy thing to
: move the image down to the GS and use the DiskMaker family or Asimov to
: reconstitute real floppies.


William Garber
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