"A DiskVaccuum For Obsolete Disk Formats"

hostile responses. Trying to ___ KryoFlux ___ tends to agitate hostile responses. I wouldn't harp on this (this is, after all, something I encounter often in the vintage software/hardware community) if the hostility wasn't world-class. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2014, at 09:25 , Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote: > > and someone asked why all of this hardware is coming out of the > Amiga/Commidore crowd and why it's all built to > > run under Windows. > > My KryoFlux does work with my Mac under OSX, but its flaw is the lack of > general write support without using the parent company's paid disk analysis > services. Without having investigated it myself, I'm willing to accept that > reading a funky write-protected format and then being able to write it to a > new disk in a way that satisfies the copy protection is tricky and > difficult or impossible to automate. But for my own selfish purposes, I > would be quite satisfied to have a good solution to read regular > non-copy-protected disks and write them back out in a way that satisfies > stock DOSes, just for keeping old hardware alive and fed with operating > systems and basic utilities. > > The public domain Disk-Utilities package looks promising in conjunction > with KryoFlux, but I haven't gotten around to trying to adapt it for the > non-PC formats that interest me. > > hostile responses. It's quite frustrating. Almost frustrating enough to > motivate me to develop a competing product, but that would be a very large > job to do well, and my darned day job ties up most of my time and gumption. > > -- > Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net> > http://www.nf6x.net/ > > >