Hey here’s an idea. For those people who don’t know and are willing to learn about Applesauce and reading / writing old discs. How about having a Workshop/seminar on this topic and a having a full demonstration and class about it? Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Jan 26, 2023, at 3:23 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Follow up-
David R. gave me a generous amount of time today on the phone and its clear to me expanding our Applesauce allow attachment of an IBM type 5 1/4" and 8" drives will cover some high 90% of disk creating that we need in the museum. It will provide a single method/user interface that enable non-expert users to create needed media from images on demand across most all the micros in the museum- Apple, Atari, Amiga, PC, CP/M.
I plan to get more familiar with the Applesause system and the support facilities available. Soon I will gather the upgrade and extra materials we would need to account for everything to make the expanded system. Following that, we will assemble the pieces and work up the functional capabilities at workshops.
FYI- Media preservation/data recovery is a different effort and will follow this effort. It would likely be located in the warehouse. I anticipate using a similar applesause system for as much as we can, and augment with whatever other systems necessary things it cannot do. Hopefully folks really interested in working this part of the operation will be able to come forward for lending expertise.
On 1/25/2023 7:04 PM, Alexander Jacocks wrote: Doug, AppleSauce is quite a flexible disk imaging and creating system. John Morris has expanded the tool far beyond its original purpose of Apple II disk management. I have used it to create disks of quite a number of formats, and find that it works as described, and is far easier to use than most other imaging tools. Additionally, John is quite receptive to requests for new formats and features. - Alex
On Jan 25, 2023, at 2:03 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm wondering how comprehensive a solution it has become and how well it works on all supported formats.
If anyone recommends it from first hand experience for doing all the disk formats that it is supposed do, please contact me off list.
(I have done disk image management with all the varied tools but if Applesause does it all well with one package I may go this way for the museum and warehouse use. I need to know before I set up all the old stand-byes to support our disk imaging)
- Doug Crawford VCF Museum Mgr