14 Sep
1999
14 Sep
'99
9:53 a.m.
I did figure out the format, but I've long since forgotten it. But most any
SU type program could read it.
Neil Morrison
email:morrison@t-iii.com
-----Original Message-----
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [SMTP:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:45 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Reading TRS-80 discs (was RE: Archiving old discs...)
Hmm... I've got an ancient ORIGINAL of Zork I
(published by Personal
Software)
I've wanted to back this thing up for years
so I can see which data file
is on
it, but I've never owned anything that can
read it. Is it likely to be
SD?
What kind of non-period hardware can read this?
If need be, I could
even
hook up a 5.25" disk to my Amiga and get
funky with that.
There was a TRS-80 model 1 Zork that meets this description -- I bought
it years ago. It was a single-density disk (The model 1 used a 1771
controller that could only do single desnity), and it was formatted
strangely 'copy protect' it. It was also a self-booting disk with no
filesystem as such -- the Zork program just read the text (encrypted
IIRC) from raw sectors on the disk.
Superutility on a TRS-80 could probably read/back up that disk, but I
don't know what else can.
-tony