Re: Looking for "Ultima II" .nib images

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

> Stephen Thomas has written a *very* short, but sophisiticated,
> DPLL-type track read routine that determines the length of mixed 8-,
> 9-, and 10-bit nibbles on the fly.  I'll ask him if he'd like to publish it.

Sounds interesting.

> But this kind of bit stuffing to adjust track length (as opposed to
> tweaking the disk speed) can interfere with some copy protection
> schemes that look for nibble lengths as part of a signature.

Well if you're trying to write the exact same number of nibbles, some
variable has to change. Drive speed is not so convenient for most
people, I suppose - it's that 0.1% you mentioned. ;-)

Anyway, I'm more interested in accurate reading.
And it sounds like most of the code is around already.

Cheers,
Nick.