Re: How to make .nib disk images?

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <3D67A803.3E1E5995@swbell.net>,
Rubywand  <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>
>     The big problem is Side 2. The original seems to be formatted for
>35 track-size "sectors". Both of the Side 2 .nib images checked were
>formatted for 16sec/trk. The original Side 2 can hold a lot more data;
>and, it seems to be nearly full.

Ahh, quite right.  I found the the Trinity V11 disk images I extracted a
nearly-working datafile from.  These were .dsk, not .nib.  It appears
this was a very ambitious crack which involved moving some of the extra
from the "18-sector" side to the unused space on the 16-sector side, and
then patching the interpreter to handle that.  Side 2 was perfectly OK,
as far as it went, but Side 1 had some damage on the last track.  I made
some repaired disk images, but the emulators I have are unable to use
them, so I can't tell if the crack ever worked.


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