Re: Converting .nib images to .dsk images

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

Matthew Clark <clarkbhm@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>
> wrote in message news:Arcmd.16336$jE2.320@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> > Hi,
> > I have a copy of Eamon adventure 249, which is only available as a .nib
> > image.  I have no idea why.  I want to convert it to .dsk.  I have a DOS
> > program, emu2em, for converting from .nib to .dsk.  However, this program
> > locks up my system when run from either a DOS box under Windows or from
> > pure
> > DOS without Windows loaded.  Are there any other programs for converting
> > between the two filetypes.  DOS, Windows or Linux programs are good.
> > Thanks.
> 
> The reason that it's in a .nib format instead of a .dsk format is that it
> was written on Catakig. According to Catakig's creator, "Catakig can read
> DSK, PO, and NIB disks, but it has its own native format which it prefers,
> and which it uses for both reading and writing floppy disk images. This
> format is a gzip-compressed NIB format, which provides the versatility of
> that format but yields a smaller file size, smaller even than DSK."
> 
> For my purposes of distribution, it was easiest to just un-gzip the program
> and post the NIB format on Eamon Adventurer's Guild website and at 
> IFarchive.org. If you are able to convert it to a DSK format, please send me
> a copy so that I can update the website! Thanks!

Catakig only uses the gzipped NIB format for 140K disk images. What I've
done in the past is to create a ProDOS hard drive image and use Shrinkit
to make SDK archives of Catakig disk images. You can then mount the hard
drive image on the Mac desktop and copy the Shrinkit archives to
whatever medium you choose.
It's been a few years since I needed to do this, but I believe I created
the ProDOS HDV image with Apple's Disk Copy.

Hope that helps.

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