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Re: DSK to NIB Instruction
- Subject: Re: DSK to NIB Instruction
- From: Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:35:05 GMT
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Charlie <charlied at bboard dot SPAMcom> wrote:
>> What we *do* have is Disk2FDI. The FDI format has the exact track length,
>> can identify 9-bit vs. 10-bit sync bytes, and so on. Converting raw .FDI
>> to .NIB is vaguely criminal. :-) There's also no "raw" format for 3.5"
>> media, so they always have to be converted to .dsk.
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but, Disk2FDI is capable of creating raw .FDI
> from 3.5" disks.
Sorry -- there is no "raw" format for 3.5" media that anything other than
FDI utilities can understand.
For example, CiderPress can read them, but it always has to convert them
to ProDOS-ordered 800K images. There's no way to hand a copy-protected
3.5" disk to an Apple II emulator.
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