Re: Disk image formats

2007-05-14 Thread Simon Owen
Jali wrote: Is there documentation or some information available about the disk image formats SimCoupe supports? The SimCoupe documentation covers all the supported disk image containers, with some technical details on each. I don't think there's a single reference covering all of them,

RE: Disk (image) formats recap

2005-02-11 Thread Simon Owen
Andrew Collier wrote: Given a PC running Windows XP, what (versions of) programs do I need in order to use a protected floppy disk in SimCoupe, and/or to create an image of one that SimCoupe can read? I'm afraid I'm still working on a solution for protected disks. SimCoupe can be used with

RE: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Owen
Stuart Brady wrote: BTW, what needs to be done to convert a sad file to a dsk and vice-versa? Use Aley's 2SAD program, which can convert to DSK or SAD (versions 1 and 2) ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/utils/disk/2sad.zip Alternatively, create a new DSK file in SimCoupe, mount both images

RE: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Chris White
Do you want me to remove them images ? Cw -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: 08 March 2001 10:15 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Disk image formats Stuart Brady wrote: BTW, what needs to be done to convert a sad file

RE: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Owen
Chris White wrote: Do you want me to remove them images ? Nah - they're the only versions of those titles available at the moment, and they're too good to remove while I sort things out! I'll probably get back to you about updating them when SimCoupe has new SDF support in it. :-) The old

RE: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Stuart Brady
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Simon Owen wrote: SAD files have a 22 bytes header, which contains a rather large text signature and some geometry information. You can specify the number of sides, number of tracks per side, number of sectors per track and the bytes per sector. So Aley's disk backup, char

RE: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Simon Owen
Stuart Brady wrote: So Aley's disk backup, char sides (2), char tracks (80), char sectors (10)... and then what? All of my disks seem to have 8 as the last byte in the header, so is this just multiplied by 64? It is indeed! I've always thought it a bit odd that it seems to save a byte on the

Re: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Aley Keprt
everything. At least I think. - Original Message - From: Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 6:09 PM Subject: RE: Disk image formats On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Simon Owen wrote: SAD files have a 22 bytes header, which contains a rather large text

Re: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Stuart Brady wrote: So Aley's disk backup, char sides (2), char tracks (80), char sectors (10)... and then what? All of my disks seem to have 8 as the last byte in the header, so is this just multiplied by 64? It is indeed! I've always thought it a bit odd that it seems to save a byte