10 Aug
2004
10 Aug
'04
4:18 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
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).
Not surprising. I wish people could not act like infants all the time.
Another benefit of creating a universal standard is that it takes platform
wars out of the equation.
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.
Platforms do not figure into the specification I have in mind. It would
be a specification. It could then be implemented on whatever platform
anyone cared to. As long as the various applications follow the spec,
images will be able to be stored where ever. Apple ][ users could store
Amiga images if they wanted to.
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