9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
2:23 p.m.
On 9 Oct 2007 at 15:15, Dave Dunfield wrote:
I'd try my hand at extracting the files from the
images, however this
isn't going to be easy due to the "invisible" sector interleaving...
hopefully the tables in the back of the CDOs manual are correct.
Unfortunately ALL the files on the three sample disks I have are
binary in nature, so I can't easily tell if I actually got the right
data (as you usually can with a readable text file).
If you can get TeleDisk files of them, send me a couple of samples
and I'll work the 22Disk stuff out for you. After we did 22Disk 1.x,
we ran into a bunch of formats with bizarre formatting (dissimilar
sector sizes, tracks distributed alternately from the middle of the
diskette, varying sector numbering from track to track, etc.) We
built a 22Disk 2.0 to handle them, but it requires that the format
definitions be compiled in, rather than as a text file. On the other
hand, it caches directory tracks and works out the fastest way to
read a track (I/O is track buffered). So there may be some hope
there if things are really strange.
Cheers,
Chuck