Marko Mäkelä wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Levente Harsfalvi wrote: > > > What about a flexible disk image format, with variable parameters? > > I mean, if it contained a header, from which the programs could decide > > if the image contains X or Y tracks/sectors etc. > > These are good ideas. I think that also the plain raw disk image format > should be supported; the tools shouldn't require this header to be > present. BTW, the cbmconvert package by me coudl be a good starting point > for supporting different disk images. Just FYI: There is a new .G64 disk image file format on the way. It is basically defined and finished, only the docs have to be written up. It is a (AFAIK) a vc1541 disk image in GCR format. It will be supported by several emulators and can handle more than the usual 35 tracks. Also there is the .x64 format that already contains an amount of information of the disk image. The header is a fixed 64 byte field just before the "d64" image. I do not know much of it, but it is supposedly much more flexible and informative than the plain .d64 file. However, .x64 did not become the emulator standard when it was invented (with the x64 - i.e. now VICE - emulator). Andre -- Email address may be invalid. Use "fachat AT physik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de" ------Fight SPAM - join CAUCE http://www.cauce.org------Thanks, spammers... Andre Fachat, Institute of physics, Technische Universität Chemnitz, FRG http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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