Does anyone know of any data disks, like the Sardine dictionary disk,
but for TPDD2? (the Sardine dictionary disk is a TPDD1 disk)
I have recently added support for both the tpdd1 and tpdd2 sector access
commands and disk image files to github.com/bkw777/dlplus , and updated
github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh to use the same file formats, and created
working disk images for both the Sardine American English dictionary
disk (converted from the sector dump that Kurt McCullum made), and the
install disk for Disk Power for KC-85, dumped from an actual original disk.
It's now possible to install Disk Power for KC-85 entirely from dlplus
without creating a real disk from the disk image, and possible to use
Sardine entirely from dlplus, including from UR-II where UR-II loads
SAR100.CO from disk on the fly, and then SAR100.CO uses sector access to
read the dictionary disk from the disk image.
Both of those are pdd1 disks though.
The only commercial distributed pdd2 disk I know of is the tpdd2 util disk.
So I'm wondering if there was ever anything like Sardine that used a
TPDD2 disk as a database disk instead of a file disk?
Also Kurt, or whoever, does anyone have the Sardine disk and be willing
to take a new image of it with pdd.sh? I essentially fabricated a disk
image from the Sardine dictionary sector dump that Kurt has up on
club100. It's working. You can re-create a real disk from it with pdd.sh
and the resulting disk works with Sardine, or you can use the image as a
virtual disk served up by dlplus and it works with Sardine that way too,
but that .bin file I got the data from only contains the DATA sections
of the sectors, no ID sections. Maybe that disk doesn't have anything in
the ID sections, but if possible I'd still like to have a disk image
that is actually a dump of the disk rather than a reconstruction I made up.
For that matter, does anyone have any other commercial disks of any
kind, tpdd1 or tpdd2, raw data or filesystem, that should be imaged now
that we can?
Thanks
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bkw
