Quoting Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - .dsk is a very simple format, it will describe only unprotected disks > but is well understood and there are many programs which can read/save > into this format. > > - .dsk can be compressed as dsk.gz, which then can be used in almost as > many programs as the raw .dsk image. > > - there is a format called .sad which can describe more formats that > .dsk, but doesn't cover all the bases. > > - current versions of SimCoupe are able to read a format .sdf, this was > designed by Simon Owen for use in SimCoupe and can describe all Sam > disks. However there is no support for it outside of SimCoupe
An important consideration for the archive is to make sure it's easy for owners of actual SAM hardware, to get the stuff onto a disk as easy as possible. I did a (very) quick Google and I can't see any tools to do this. If we do a CD, then it would be a nice to be able to easily move the stuff directly from the CD onto a CF or HD without any intervention from a PC. We've got some time to choose the format though, because our first three months will be mainly getting the site going with PD and other similar stuff. By the way, I still plan to get the domain sorted tomorrow evening so if anyone has an opinion on what domain they'd like us to use, shout out today or tomorrow - it looks like samcoupe.org is in the lead at the moment. I'm really looking forward to all this - thanks for all the offers of help etc, I'm archiving all your offers into a seperate mail folder for future use so be warned ;) Gavin
