3 Nov
2022
3 Nov
'22
2:27 p.m.
I was thinking about acquiring a Kryoflux in the next
few months and
starting to collect better quality images of disks. I recently saw
someone on Twitter suggest that Kryoflux wasn't the best route to go
and suggested a SuperCard Pro instead.
Some people are bothered by Kryoflux's behavior around openness of their
formats and the like. I _think_ they've addressed that, but if you care
about this, you will have to verify. _My_ Kryoflux went deaf -- quit
hearing any flux on the read line from the drive -- but that doesn't
seem to be common.
The SuperCard Pro doesn't seem to support 8" disks. That may or may not
be an issue for you.
The frustrating part of the whole flux imaging arena is that the
hardware is actually the _easy_ part. Software to decode flux images
for all the myriad on-disk formats, copy protection schemes, etc is
both the hard part _and_ the part everyone seems to skip over. If you
just need to process Apple / Atari / Commodore / PC diskettes, you're
probably covered. For anything else you're probably on your own.
Note that some disk types are CLV, not CAV (e.g. some Mac disks), and
reading them without additional hardware support may be problematic.
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