Re: Reading Apple2 floppies on a PC using Disk2FDI

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

"Rob" <bobh1234@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:13:31 -0400, "Charlie"
> <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Disk2FDI also can produce FDI images which have the potential to allow
many
> >copy-protected disks to be archived.  Unfortunately, there are no Apple
II
> >emulators or utilities that support the FDI format.
> >
>
> Interesting.  I'll have to buy a 5.25" IBM floppy and try this.
>
> So my question is, what is the FDI format for if you can't use it in
> an emulator?

At this time there isn't much use for it in the Apple II world, but
Disk2FDI and the FDI format can be used with floppies other than Apple II.
Currently, as far as I know there is only one emulator (Amiga, I think)
that supports it.
I hope that someone who maintains an Apple II emulator will decide to
support it.

>
> We need something to convert .FDI to .NIB.  :)

That would be a start, but the FDI format copies a lot more data off the
original disk than just the encoded nibbles making it possible to make
"exact" copies in many cases.
By the way FDI images are very large (over 2MB for a 140K Apple II floppy)
and they can take a long time to create so they would probably only be
useful for copy-protected disks that can't be copied any other way.

Charlie