Looking at the wiki I didn't immediately notice, can it also write disk images back out to floppy?
It's not really in the current scope of the project, but yes it will be possible to write back a lot of the protections. The platform is open source so others could write software more dedicated to this. The main idea however is floppies are dead and probably won't make a come back unless someone has some deep pockets and plans to have new disks made. Hardware emulators will take over and we will have at least have the original preserved. Floppies probably won't go away in the next 10 years, but more and more are failing and in increasing numbers. None are exempt from this issue. The only issue I can see with writing out images back to medium would be some companies used drives with several heads, like 20 of them. You can see the evidence of this fingerprint with some of the images. None of these units are known to exist in the wild. So these images may not be able to be written back, or if they are they may not be usable. It's unknown currently. However I'm sure someone will see this as a challenge and find a way. Doesn't exclude the dying floppy issue however. John and I are also working on a new hardware floppy emulator project which supports .WOZ files directly since none of the other projects seem to be able. More news to come on that also. Henry S. Courbis Office Toll Free: (800) REACTIVE (732-2848) Office/Mobile Direct: (856) 779-1900 www.ReActiveMicro.com <http://www.ReactiveMicro.com> - Sales, Support, and News, Our Headquarters on the Internet ReActiveMicro.com/wiki - Support, Software, Manuals, and History. Create your own page today! Facebook.com/reactivemicrousa - Our Social Media Outlet and Support On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr@757.org> wrote:
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Looking at the wiki I didn't immediately notice, can it also write disk images back out to floppy?
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