On Dec 9, 2004, at 11:13 pm, Simon Cooke wrote:

Sector addresses which do not directly correspond to their real location on
disk - eg. on track 4 you'd have a sector which had a sector ID of 10, and a
track id of 255.
(This happens in the Parallax copy protection).

ooh, sneaky!

Any truly generic archive format would have to support such disks.

Agreed.

I think the only good reason to invent a new diskimage format would be to hold disk geometries which the previous ones couldn't - and I think Simon just identified it.

Cheers,

Andrew

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