Re: Looking for "Ultima II" .nib images

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did see this a year or so ago, and my interest was piqued.
> But it seems to only support DOS format 5.25" Disk ][ tracks.

The "raw" output supports 5.25" and 3.5" disks, and is completely
independent of the actual format.  It stores the tracks as three
overlapping signals, one of which is the index marker, so it's possible
to determine track length and synchronization precisely.

> FDI seems quite a 'foreign' format, though of course I hope
> that one day it's supported in Apple emulation. And adding
> an entirely new format seems like overkill.

CiderPress can convert it to ".nib" and TrackStar ".app", the latter
being preferred because it preserves track lengths.  It's still not
enough -- it should preserve sync byte info -- but it's better than .nib.

The trouble with raw FDI is that it's expensive to process and very
difficult to write.  It doesn't make much sense for emulators to support
it directly.

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