Re: DSK to NIB Instruction

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Knut Roll-Lund" <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no> wrote in message 
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> 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?


A controller, 140K and 800K in one card, is on the burner, and
being worked on. It WILL be available within the next month or 2.
Please wait if you can. I am also looking at adding 1.4MB ProDOS
capability. Right now I have a problem with the eject buttons not
functioning on 800K, but that should be remedied soon. Thanks.

Bill Garber