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From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 23. záøí 1999 17:25
Subject: Re: Teledisk, SAD.GZ etc.
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
>
> > > > btw. GZipped SAD images are now preffered, SimCoupe can read them.
> > >
> > > Unless the disk is a standard Sam unprotected format, in which case a
> > > gzipped .DSK would be better because then Linux and MacOS users can
read
> > > it too.
> >
> > Be aware! It is a bit more complicated.
> >
> > I think Linux and MacOS people have SAD support in SimCoupe. Or not?
>
> Dunno about Linux, but the MacOS version doesn't have SAD support at all.
> It is quite old, derived from an old version of the unix sources. And
> despite the GPL, the programmer/s responsible have released the binary but
> not the source. Grrr.
>
> Admittedly there isn't native .dsk.gz support either, but at least those
> can be decompressed and used.
>
> > DSK can't be GZipped, since SimCoupe needs to know the size of the file.
> > So I implemented only SAD.GZ, not DSK.GZ.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean, why is there a problem? Could you go into more
> detail?
Look into sources. DSK is a plain file. There are two types of DSK which can
be
distinguished only by the file size. I don't know why some people still
don't want
to switch to SAD. Do you reall LOVE dsk or what?
When a particular port doesn't support SAD, people can
a) update the port (of course, not when you can't get sources)
b) use converter
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What I originaly said is that files could be uploaded to NVG in SAD v2
format.
Because this can be used directly. If you compress SAD with standard ZIP,
the file will be longer than pure SAD v2 and you can't use it directly.
(SAD v2 = SAD.GZ)
On other systems, you can still decompress SAD v2 (or directly convert to
DSK using 2sad).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The ZLIB used as GZipper is available for MacOS, and Linux as well.
I've tested Win32 and DOS versions and there were no problems.
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