Re: Hardware musings

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> But, again, any disk image buffering scheme rules out some of the
> most interesting (copy protected) disks.
>
> If the only thing it could handle was unprotected disks, then we already
> have many ways of deailing with them.  It seems like a lot of work just
> to achieve "yet another" way of getting unprotected disks to a PC.

Agreed. I can see the appeal though - especially for those who don't
have hard disks or other storage on their Apple II's. It offers the
promise of a quick and seamless approach, especially if the device had
Ciderpress integration.

The path of least resistance for transferring copy protected images is
probably to design a file format capable of it, then hack/modify Copy
II plus to allow image creation.

Matt