Re: Looking for KeyPerfect

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Scott Alfter <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> This appears to not be any sort of standard Apple II archive format, so
> ShrinkIt and GSHK won't have anything to do with it.  (A copy of AppleWin
> sitting on one of my work machines booted it once it was uncompressed, but
> that's about as useful as tits on a mule.)
> 
> ISTR compressing disk-image files in the past with nulib and unpacking them
> to floppies with ShrinkIt, but the block order appears to be scrambled
> (block 2, which is the start of the root directory, is at offset 0x0B00
> instead of 0x0400).

If you load it into CiderPress and hit Ctrl-I, it'll tell you what the
format is (including overall file format, DOS vs. ProDOS ordering, etc).

Sometimes just changing the file extension from ".dsk" to ".do" or ".po"
is enough to convince the emulator.

You can use the disk converter tool to change it to whatever format you like.

> (nulib2 AFAIK won't generate a Binary II header.  ShrinkIt should still open
> it, even though the filetype and auxtype will be wrong (unless you fix it on
> your downloaded file).)

It will preserve the header on a BXY but won't create one.

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