21 Jan
2023
21 Jan
'23
4:48 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:55:50PM -0800, geneb via cctalk wrote:
[...]
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the AppleSauce
yet. Yes, it requires a
Mac. Yes, they're currently out of stock, but Yes, it's absolutely the
best solution out there for disk imaging. https://applesaucefdc.com/
It's certainly priced as if they think it's the "best solution". But
it's
also closed-source, driven by a weird GUI tool, and unavailable for at least
six months. Charging a whopping $70 for shipping and tossing it into the
regular international mail is just icing. So it's not even close to my idea
of "best" on any of those fronts, but hey, whatever works for you.
My objection to such a thing being closed-source isn't just ideological. If
I am trying to read a disk which has an unrecognised format or is so mangled
that the software throws up its arms, I'm completely out of luck adding
support to it myself.
Their response to Linux and Windows users is basically "run our software on
a pirate copy of MacOS in a VM". Yes, users of disk imaging tools are
unlikely to care much about violating copyright, but it's probably best to
not say the quiet part out loud here.