3 Feb
2016
3 Feb
'16
5:25 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Jim Simpson wrote:
Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette
archive files and recover
the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of
other stuff too) on many different sites, all saved in .IMD format. Is it
possible to read these files and recover the data instead of writing a
floppy disk with DiskImage?
You can use the IMDU program (part of the ImageDisk package) to convert
those files to a vanilla sector image. From there, cpmtools is your
friend for extracting the files. IIRC, the BB used the same format as the
Xerox 820 machines and they'll probably already be a useable diskdef. If
not, it's fairly straightforward to write one.
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