Linards Ticmanis wrote:
Andy McFadden wrote:I was thinking of writing something that does the opposite -- convert a .nib file into two SST-format .dsk files, so that you can ADT them to a real Apple and then run SST on it to get a working disk. As I understand, there's currently no way to get a .nib image back to a real floppy that will actually work on real hardware. Or am I wrong on this?Somebody a few months back claimed he did it all the time without any difficulty. I have not seen many (any?) other reports of success, though I'm not sure how many people have actually tried it.Hello Andy,I did it the other way without problems -- I converted a non-standard disk to two standard disks with SST on the real Apple, transferred them with ADT, then made a working .nib image using a copy of SST that was running on an emulator. I never managed to do this in the direction PC -> Apple though.Greetings,
This is my experience too, the transfer disks seems to contain garbage. A merged real disk won't boot even. I think it must be a problem in SST vs emulated nib, reading the track information. If we just knew the SST transfer disk format we could probably break apart a nib into the two disks. would it be impossible to figure out the SST format?
Actually the best solution would be if ADT could transfer the nib directly...
After I realized this problem I thought I might go an alternate way, to transfer the nib to the //e and to put it on disk there, but then I need somewhere to store the nib. I could buy a 3.5" 800K drive but it seems to be impossible to obtain a suitable controller. Anyone have a SuperDrive controller for sale?
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