Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

----- Original Message ----- From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard Festival ---- Specifications are nice, but unless you get the people who still have the hardware and software to join in it will get nowhere. The problem is getting the people to follow the standards and image their disks, once the images have been collected you can do what you want with them and not worry about the platform they came from. CAPS software uses an Amiga 1200 platform to get images from the original disks, Commodore 64 users can grab images from a 1541/1571 drive connected to a PC running DOS connected to the drive with a xe1541 cable and some software. As far as I know there is no hardware that can precisely read all of the different disk formats and sizes let alone deal with all copy protection methods (such as laser hole in the media itself). You still need the original hardware of the platform it ran on to get the images.. so you have to get the people of the different platforms behind you (good luck).