16 May
2005
16 May
'05
4:11 p.m.
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Teo Zenios wrote:
Why can't a group just incorporate the images that
are already made by
machine specific groups? There is a huge scene for Atari, Commodore, Timex,
Amiga, Tandy, etc that has already made images of just about every
commercial and PD disk for their platform. Asking a group that already has
everything dumped to use special tools to redump them for some other group
is a waste of their time. I think it would be better just to document what
each group does now, archive those images, and then create some software
that can recreate any of the images back to disk as needed.
Because not all (if any) groups have dumped to images of any manner of
archival standard. All we have today is a mish-mash of miscellaneous
images not dumped in a manner that preserves as much information
(metadata) of the original media as possible.
This is the problem that FutureKeep aims to resolve. Existing images will
be able to be converted to the FutureKeep standard, but they will lack
essential metadata. Once FutureKeep exists, it is hoped that any new
images made will be done in that universal standard. It is also hoped
that volunteers will go back and re-image all possible software in the
FutureKeep file format.
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