Re: Best image format ?

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Zouplaz <pouet@pouet.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to create disk images from old floppies : which format is 
> the "best" for 5.25 ?
> Most of theses floppies are DOS or unknow format and sometimes Prodos.
> 
> Should I allways use DOS3.3 order, or switch to PRODOS order for PRODOS 
> disk and leave DOS 3.3 for all the others ?
> 
> Or use PRODOS order all the time ??

Pick one and stick to it.  For 5.25" disks I would either recommend
unadorned DOS order (".do") like ADT does, or ShrinkIt compressed (which,
being a ProDOS application, stores things in ProDOS order).  The OS on
the disk doesn't really matter.

The emulators are getting better, but it used to be that 5.25" disk images
were expected to be DOS-ordered.  Most emulators now seem to accept them
either way.

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