On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Geoffrey Reed wrote:
On 11/1/11 2:15 PM, "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Christian Bartsch | KryoFlux
Ltd. wrote:
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- We
released the full source code to our own format, IPF, introduced over
ten years ago, that stores original data as found on original disks, e.g.
custom formats and copy protection.
Can we do better? Please let us know!
I'm pleased to see the project opening up (release of library source,
etc). I was a bit uncomfortable with what I perceived to be a proprietary
approach earlier on.
What would really be the clincher for me is the ability to take a sector
image of the various machines, e.g. an Apple ProDOS or DOS 3.3 "*.po"
image and write it to a diskette. I get the impression that it currently
has the ability to read flux transitions and extract such sector images,
but nothing mentions the capability of re-creating a track image and
writing them out to media.
From reading their forums to turn the resulting data
into an image you have
to send it to them and they have to process it. Their explination is that
the software and knowledge is beyond the pricepoint of most people
(software) and most people don't have the knowledge to decode a flux
recording....
> From their FAQ.
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Thanks for pointing that out. They are welcome to use whatever
business/IP model they wish, but this one bothers me enough that I would
avoid the device.
I'll continue using the Catweasel and my various other boxes to make
images and hope that Philip gets the support software for DiscFerret
fleshed out in the near future.
Philip? You've been very quiet lately. How's progress?
Steve
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