10 Aug
2004
10 Aug
'04
3:28 p.m.
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard
Festival
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
> Here is an example of a society that preserves media on the Amiga
platform
> (complete images including the copy protection as
used by the
developer).
>
> http://www.caps-project.org/
>
> They have spent allot of time deciphering custom disk formats and saving
all
of the
information digitally so it can be reproduced exactly at a later
date.
That's a very cool project. The archives they are making could be
converted into the specification I'm talking about by writing a
translation program to take the raw bit images they are producing and
convert it into the specification markup language. Quite easily.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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The images they made can be run on WinUAE, and there is talk of using the
recently announced Catweasel V 4 for dumping the images back to floppy.
They have also started looking at doing the same preservation on the Atari
ST line, which ST people have problems with for some reason (namely Amiga
people doing the standards).
Without support from the people of the different platforms it would be hard
to get a universal program to work. While TOSEC.org has done a good job of
cataloging image files from multiple systems, most of their archives are for
programs that have been cracked, while CAPs is trying to preserver the
programs as they were sold with the copy protection intact.