[vcf-midatlantic] Applesauce - The protected disk imaging solution
systems_glitch
systems.glitch at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 16:45:16 EDT 2018
Hey man, floppies aren't dead! :P But seriously, I have cases of NOS Athana
DSDD 5.25" media if people need it.
Nice to see another open source project being made widely available.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Henry S. Courbis via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> >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
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> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr at 757.org> wrote:
>
> > It's official - Applesauce is now being offered for sale.
> >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/permalink/10157597145223677/
> >>
> >
> > Looking at the wiki I didn't immediately notice, can it also write disk
> > images back out to floppy?
> >
> > - Ethan
> >
>
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