Re: Nibble Images ...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Rubywand wrote:

>Chris M writes ...
>> 
>> Can someone point me to software that lets me do a nibble copy of a
>> disk?  Any way to get the .nib image to a PC easily?
>> 
>
>     Unfortunately, Saltine's Super Transcopy (SST) was designed to transfer
>copy-protected disks using just 5.25" media. It was not designed to create
>.nib files you could store on 800k diskettes or hard disk. So, creating a .nib
>with SST involves a transfer and combining process such as described by Andy.
>
>     If you are not set up for transferring the disks SST creates via ADT or
>some other NULL modem connection, you might save some bother using DISK2FDI
>to read the diskettes on your PC:

I thought that DISK2FDI produced ordinary 143KB image files, not .nib files.

I would expect that it couldn't read a copy-protected Apple diskette.

This limitation, assuming I'm correct, is not a hardware limitation but
a limitation of the software that converts the data read into an image.
There is no reason in principle why it could not also create .nib files
(I just didn't think that it did it yet).

-michael

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